Depth

A NaruHina fanfic

Chapter 10: Vengeance!

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Arg this one's fucking long. Nah not really but I really couldn't be stuffed with it for a while haha.

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"Yo Sasuke! Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, waving maniacally at his old friend walking along a few meters ahead of him. Naruto was obviously exuberant that he got laid last night, so his re-found hyperactivity was now quadrupled.

"Hn" Sasuke said, his usual reply hadn't changed over the years he had left the village. "So you're Hokage now, and I achieved my revenge" he said with nostalgia when Naruto caught up to him.

Naruto took this as permission to drape an arm over his buddies shoulder. "Yea! Awesome huh? Now what will two old dreamers do hay? We're on the same team as Hinata now, I wonder what her dream is? Maybe we could help her with hers, and then all three of us will be complete!"

Sasuke answered with another "Hn", then "What happened to Sakura? Not that I'm not glad she's gone, she was really annoying, but where'd she go?" he asked.

"She joined Team 8 cause I became Hokage, and my other teammate, Sai, went back into Anbu, but not a part of ROOT anymore" Naruto explained the fate of his previous comrades in arms. "Hn" he got as another reply. Sasuke…

"At least Hinata doesn't go crazy over me as soon as she sees me, I've actually got a little respect for her since she beat my ass back to this village" Sasuke admitted grudgingly.

Naruto smirked. "Yea, she goes crazy over me!" he yelled.

"Huh?" Sasuke queried. "She still likes you? I remember she was like that in the academy, but I thought she would have grown up by now and gone after more… decent… suitors."

Naruto's eyebrow twitched. "What the hell do mean by that teme? I'm the frickin Hokage! You can't get any more decent than me!" he shouted.

Sasuke smirked. "Just look how you're acting…dobe" he said the last bit cheekily then ran off towards their little teams meeting area, an irate Naruto charging after him.

When they reached the small clearing they found Hinata already there, sitting on a log in her Kevlar chunin vest and short black skirt, her senbon and kunai strapped to her legs and left arm.

'Damn she's sexy like that' Naruto thought. Sasuke unwillingly had the same train of thought, but shook them off, he knew they liked each other, even if he wasn't sure how far along in their relationship they were. He didn't even know if they were going out… not even suspecting what they had done last night.

"Hey Hinata-chan!" Naruto yelled to get the girls attention. She looked around, but they were still too far off for her to see.

Sasuke stopped walking. "You sure she's good Naruto?" he asked, fully aware she could hear him though so treading carefully.

"Of course!" Naruto ensured. "She can just use her super ninja demon eyes or the Byakugan to see long range, and her other senses short range. She'll still be a great ninja!"

"Hn." Sasuke accepted it and they proceeded to cross the remaining distance. After all, she was competent enough to beat him, even if he had been seriously underestimating her.

Hinata had finished pinpointing their entrance location with her hearing so was looking right at them when their blurry figures came into her range of sight. "Hi guys" she said, brushing the dirt off her backside as she stood up.

"Hey Hinata, you all good this morning?" Naruto asked for like the 50th time that day, since they had woken up together.

Hinata instantly turned red remembering last night's adventures. "Y-yes, I-I'm fine N-Naruto-kun" she blundered about in embarrassment with her words.

"Well, since we already all know each other, let's go get a mission!" Naruto yelled in over enthusiasm and grabbed her hand, turned tail, and led the three man squad to the Hokage building.

Hinata tried her best, but she couldn't quite hide the hobble as she was pulled along behind Naruto, her privates were still tender from last night. Sasuke didn't fail to notice this, and his eyes widened in disbelief. Then, he regained his composure and glanced at her sidelong. Yep, it was definite. Hinata got fucked last night. And from Naruto's obvious even more hyperactivity than normal, it looked like he had been the one to do it with her. He held in his bark of laughter, instead going for a twitch at the corner of his mouth to indicate a smirk.

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So the squad arrived at the Hokage tower and all met up with Tsunade, who was sifting through various papers.

"Ahh, welcome, I see you're all good and acquainted, no hard feelings from Sasauke towards Hinata?" she teased with a smirk.

Sasuke grunted a "Hn" to say that the matter was settled.

"Good" Tsunade perked up. "Your teams name will be called Team Kage, since you have a kage in your midst, but also, Hinata and Sasuke specialize in stealth and deception techniques, with his Sharingan and her stealth prestige, it's an appropriate name. But, since you're all such high level ninja, I will leave it for you guys to choose your own missions that you think will be adequate for your level and benefit the village most" she said, then left the new team to sift through the papers on her desk, heading for the sake cupboard in the next room over. She smiled to herself for her devious plan to get out of the paperwork; there had been no S or even A rank missions in the pile, so she thought they could just think up their own mission.

After realizing this, Team Kage began pondering what else they could do for the village, when the conversation from earlier with Sasuke hit Naruto.

"Hey Hinata, what's your dream, your goal in life, your greatest desire?" he asked innocently.

Strangely, Hinata reacted with a slight blush. "W-Why do you ask Naruto-kun?" she replied.

He grinned and scratched the back of his head. "Well, me and Sasuke got what we wanted, Hokage and revenge, so I was wondering if we could help you accomplish what you wanted for a mission."

Despite her now red face, Hinata smiled kindly to him. "N-Naruto-kun, I've already got what I always dreamed of" she said meekly.

Even through his density, he saw what she meant by that. "Oh, well, I, um, well, was there anything other than me that you wanted?" he asked awkwardly. Meanwhile, Sasuke was cracking up inside, though outside his stoic façade never broke.

Hinata's demeanor, however, instantly dropped. "I-I didn't think I was that type of girl" she looked directly at Sasuke "But I too want revenge, on the man that took me for that year. I already got my revenge on Killerbee, now, I want it on the Raikage. I want to kill him" she finished coldly. In the resulting silence, she quickly broke it. "B-but, I don't want you guys to help me, I don't want you to get hurt, I can do this on my own."

Naruto hesitated in his speech to help her, but strangely, Sasuke spoke up. "This is de ja vu'" he said with nostalgia. "That's exactly how I thought, that I had to do everything on my own. Well, I found you need comrades, even if it's just to help you get the chance for your revenge. Me and Naruto will get you to the Raikage, but if you still hold this view when we meet him, it will be a one on one fight, me and Naruto will only hold back his guards so you can have a go at him" he said.

Naruto kipped up at this. "Yea, great idea teme!" he said without a hint of sarcasm. "Let's do it straight away Hinata!" he said enthusiastically, dragging her arm and pulling her out of the office.

"Oh, ok" Hinata blurted out as she was dragged down the hall. They were all already mission ready, so they were prepared to leave on the spot. Which, it looked like they were doing.

"Good luck on your mission" Tsunade said absently from inside one of the rooms when she heard the commotion pass, not worried about what it was they were up to, just glad that she knew it would be something to benefit the village.

Little did she know they were about to take on one of the villages largest threats. Maybe if she did she could have sent them a little back up…

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Their trip passed quickly with no events along the way. All being elite ninja they travelled at speeds incomprehensible to a civilian, and so if one saw them they could just make out a passing blur.

One day out from the Village Hidden in the Clouds, they made camp in a small basin of rock in the Land of Lightning to get some rest before what they knew was to be an epic fight tomorrow. Three ninja against an entire Hidden Village. They would need all the energy they could get.

Hinata was more than a little nervous, but didn't let it show. She was an expert at hiding emotions now, better even than an Uchiha, so her friends were oblivious. But when she was alone that night in her tent, she looked at the blurry image of her shaking hand in fear. This would be the first time she saw him since she deserted, and she didn't think he would take it lightly. What if he still had a seal planted in her, in a secret place where Tsunade hadn't checked? No, she trusted the acting Hokage of the Leaf to have done a better job than that. With difficulty, she clenched her fist and stopped the shaking, forcing determination into her body, and finally got some sleep that night.

In the morning they left their mission packs in the clearing. Checking her various senbon and kunai holsters to make sure the weapons slid freely and unchecked, Hinata finally stood up and set her sights towards the blurry horizon where Cloud lay within the mountains.

Sasuke and Naruto came up on either side of her, also looking to the golden horizon slowly revealing the village in the distance. 'The village that tortured Hinata for a whole year!' Naruto thought angrily, keen on some revenge. Sasuke's thoughts were neutral, but he did feel slightly melancholy, he knew how Hinata felt right now. With a short nod from the girl, the three set off towards their destiny…

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"Sir! There's been a breach in the perimeter, three unidentified enemy ninja have entered the village and are killing any shinobi that get in their way. Their line of fire so far is being directed here, I believe they are coming straight for you!"

The Raikage smirked. "Let them come, I'm interested to see what it is they want."

Just then, another messenger came sprinting in, panting heavily from the exertion. He forcefully calmed his breathing enough to gasp out his message. "Raikage-sama, one of the assailants has been indentified by a fellow ninja to be one Megumi Hinata!"

The Raikage stood up in shock. "WHAT!" he roared, shaking the room to its foundations with the bellow of his voice. He calmed somewhat. "So she's finally returned! Very well, kill her two comrades, but let her through to me. I will deal with her. I knew she was bound to turn on me someday, I'm well enough ready for her."

"Hai, Raikage-sama" the messenger replied, and both exited quickly, leaving the Raikage on his seat to stew over his machinations.

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Hinata dispatched another cloud ninja with a senbon through the throat, piercing his jugular to leave him with a long, slow death choking on his own blood. She stepped over his body, seeing through her demon sight that the way ahead was suspiciously clear. She looked back to see Sasuke and Naruto still fighting off a horde of cloud shinobi.

"Go ahead!" Naruto yelled when he saw her opening. She saw Sasuke nod too, so nodded in return for her two guys and sprinted towards the tower she knew all too well. Taking the stairs two at a time, she found it strange there were no further guards or resistance.

'They must all be out fighting the boys' she concluded. Bursting into the office, she stopped short to see the Raikage already standing there, awaiting her.

"Oh, so you have returned Megumi?" he smirked.

Hinata's visage turned deadly. "She's not here anymore" she hissed, only to get a smirk in return.

"Oh no, she's still there, you can never get rid of her Hinata. She will always be with you, just with a little prompting will she come out." He focused his chakra to the seals buried in her head, only to notice they were gone, along with her Byakugan and womb seals. "Oooh, where'd all the seals go? That's no fun, but at least now I have some Byakugan eyes to experiment with."

Hinata could almost see the frost seep over the furniture when she spoke. "You won't live long enough for that."

Then she charged, leaping for his face with a not so gentle fist strike. Despite her speed, he batted away her attack effortlessly with one oversized arm. He attempted to grab it to break the appendage and enjoy her screams again, maybe even take out some pleasure on the girl that he had resisted for a year, but unfortunately she twirled away from him and instead he found himself reaching for a pair of senbon which sank deep into his palm.

He cursed himself for losing concentration and pulled the senbon out, already sending chakra down his arm to neutralize the poison. She didn't let up though and came at him with a supercharged kick. He ducked underneath it and rock splinters filled the air as the foot, covered in chakra, carved a ragged line in the wall behind him.

Now his other hand pounced out, grabbing her ankle before she had another chance to move. He squeezed tight, feeling satisfaction as something popped in her foot from the pressure of his immense strength. What did not satisfy him was Hinata's stony silence, she didn't scream like he expected.

Instead, she grimaced and pushed off with her now broken ankle, catching him off guard so her knee rammed up into his face, breaking his nose. Blood sprayed over the porcelain white skin of her knee and she leapt back, quickly fortifying the bones in her ankle back into place with chakra while he reeled. She winced as she felt them grinding against each other, but was already on the move again, if not with a small limp.

The Raikage clutched his nose, blood running down over his fingers, when he saw she was coming back. "Shit" he swore, and then met her with a punch to her head. But what he hit substituted into his desk.

Whipping around, he met a solid strike to his gut, feeling the chakra of her jyuuken strike mangle his kidney and close off some chakra points. More hits of those and he wouldn't be able to pull out his big guns. It seemed like now was the time to do so. He grinned maniacally, the blood from his nose running down over his teeth to make him look like a demon.

"You think you're so tough because you have a bijuu locked inside you huh Hinata!" he yelled in a crazed voice. "Well think again bitch, 'cause you're not the only one!"

Sickly green chakra erupted into life around him and three chakra tails sprouted from the cloak. Hinata gasped when she saw the three tailed demon cloak, the Sanbi. But the Raikage wasn't finished. He jumped out the window, landing in a shower of glass on the rocky plateau outside. Hinata quickly followed him, landing gingerly with her weight on her good foot, to see his body morphing, transforming.

"This isn't the best environment for it without water, but I, my dear Hinata, am the legendary SANBI!" he shouted and fully transformed into the bijuu, leaving a giant three tailed armored turtle filling the area.

Hinata looked up in fear and couldn't help but quiver. That is until she felt a familiar yet strange and uncomfortable presence in the back of her mind. "Hinata, use me" the Nibi called, but her voice sounded a lot like… Megumi.

She hesitated, only to just miss being pancaked by a tail then dodge around being vaporized by a chakra ball, instead being hit by the resulting explosion and sent tumbling across a hundred or so meters of rocky dirt.

She slowly got up and faced the Sanbi again, blood coating the right side of her face from a long sharp cut she had got from one particular stone to the forehead. She could see herself, one small girl before the giant turtle demon.

'You're right, I need you, no matter what you've become' she thought in resignation, and gave herself over to the demon, retaining just enough control to stay in the human form for now. Purple chakra surrounded her and the two tails sprouted from the cloak, two little cat ears also adorning the chakra around her head.

She hissed at the Raikage, crouching down, relishing the experience of not being able to feel the pain from her foot anymore. Then she sprang forward with incredible speed and leapt atop the turtle, going straight for the eye that she knew was a weak spot. It scraped a tail along the armor over its face, brushing her away just in time. She leapt back to the ground then cartwheeled away from the deconstructing earth that she was on when the tail hit mere inches away.

The Raikage's voice emanated from the bijuu. "Hahahahaha! Not only were we able to steal the Nibi, but we got the Sanbi too! Did you honestly think I would let you, some random girl from an enemy village, host our only new jinchuuriki? It was because I was already taken, and no-one else in this pathetic village could handle the power of a jinchuuriki themselves!"

'But you were too stuck up to get training from your own jinchuuriki the village already had; Killerbee. I should be able to win this fight if I remember my training' Hinata thought. 'But for that…I have to go to the full Bijuu form."

She took a deep breath, and gave herself fully over to the Nibi. Even as she did, she felt Megumi rush to the surface with the demon. Hinata was caged again, but when the fight was over, she would fight back into control even if it killed her. She would no longer allow Megumi to roam the world.

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Megumi looked up in sadistic pleasure at the Sanbi. "Well hello Raikage-sama" she said frostily.

The Sanbi paused, then leant down and examined her with its one bulging eye. "I see Megumi's back. So, you want to be loyal to Cloud again?" he asked.

Megumi barked a harsh laugh. "No, No, I want revenge even more than Hinata does!" she shouted, and her body started morphing.

She grew and grew, the chakra around her merging with her body to reveal the giant two tailed cat bijuu crouching before the Sanbi. While a lot smaller, it was also a lot nimbler. This suited Megumi perfectly, she was not a tank, she was a small dark assassin that struck every moment her enemies guard was down. Every moment they weren't expecting it, she killed.

"Die you sadistic fuck!" she hissed and pounced at his face.

An armored tail rose to block her, but instead she latched onto it, using the extra leverage to swipe at his eye. He leant back, gathering chakra from the air to create a small demonic orb before his eye. Nibi saw the condensed ball of energy and leapt out of the way as it sped towards her. It missed and faded into the background, whereas a huge explosion shook the background where it hit the village behind.

Hinata within Megumi shivered at the obvious loss of life, but her container showed no sympathy, and neither did the Raikage. Condensing chakra in her toothy maw in return of Sanbi's attack, Nibi shot her own purple ball of chakra.

Slower to move, the Sanbi blocked with a tail, only to have another ball fly over it and knock the top of its shell, tearing out a huge chunk of armor. Nibi continued firing smaller version of the balls like a machine gun, tearing out little chunks of the Sanbi.

Getting annoyed, it roared back, the chakra balls bursting on the force of the sound wave before they could even reach their target. Then all three tails were coming towards Nibi. She nimbly dodged one, and then leapt above the other so that it crashed down on the previous one. She sidestepped the third with much the same tactics, aiming to tangle its tails.

Sanbi realized this however and retracted its tails. "Enough with these games!" the Raikage's voice emanating from it, pausing the combatants. "I'm finishing this!" he yelled.

The turtle slowly gathered chakra before its eye, but instead of stopping at the relatively small ball, it kept coming and coming and coming. It created a huge ball of yellowish chakra before the eye, looking at the sky to hold it above ground. Nibi eyed the gathering bomb that would have near nuclear strength, and began forming her own to combat it. Her fangs spread wide; it quickly was becoming the equal to Sanbi's.

Hinata was quivering inside the Nibi with the amount of energy being gathered. She knew, if these two forces collided, the surrounding area for at least ten miles would be obliterated. Only highly experience ninja would have a chance of surviving. She wasn't worried about Naruto and Sasuke, but the Cloud village would be disintegrated. Every civilian would die.

She struggled for dominance over the bijuu, but Megumi pushed her back almost effortlessly. The Nibi was no longer there, Megumi had complete dominance. The two tailed bijuu was now merely a tool, no longer a conscious entity. The two demons finally finished gathering their chakra and faced off behind giant swirling orbs of yellow and purple chakra respectively.

The Sanbi let out a sort of screaming yell and shot the energy straight towards the Nibi. She retaliated, shooting her own chakra towards it. They collided in a titanic blast, the chakra reacting and igniting, covering the surrounding area in a shockwave of flames and debris. It rushed out at speed incomprehensible, rushing over the village, taking up ninja and children alike in its fiery embrace of death. (sadface )

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Naruto saw it rushing towards them. He grabbed Sasuke and bit his thumb, placing it on the ground. "Reverse summoning jutsu!" he yelled as the flames enveloped them and a chunk of building splattered the enemy ninja opposite him. Naruto and Sasuke appeared in Mt Myobuko (I hope that's how you spell it) amidst a gathering of surprised toads, brushing the smoldering flames off their respective clothes.

"What was that?" Naruto yelled, only now noticing the curious toads. "Shit! We gotta go back for Hinata!" he yelled, about to reverse the reverse jutsu, but Sasuke stopped him.

"Wait for a minute Naruto, the explosion will still be there" Sasuke said calmly. "We'll have to risk the radiation, but we cannot survive in the inferno."

Naruto grudgingly accepted and turned to quickly explain to the befuddled expressions on the assembly of toads.

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Hinata winced. She slowly opened her eyes, to see she was looking up at a blurry grey mushroom cloud in the sky. She was back in control, Megumi to hurt to keep possession of her body. She grunted and pushed herself into a sitting position with her elbow. She glanced over herself and saw a myriad of cuts and burns adorning her body, along with hundreds of splinters of debris.

One exceptionally large piece had pierced straight through her flak jacket into the soft skin underneath, making blood leak out and stream down the front of the blackened vest. Wincing, she grabbed the splinter, which was really an almost boulder sized chunk of rock, and ripped it out of her body, emitting a small gasp of agony.

Shakily, she rose to her feet and stumbled towards where the Raikage should be, however with her limited vision she couldn't yet see him. As she walked over the broken remains of the plain they had been in, she saw a blur in front of her and a fist crashed into her jaw.

Staggering, she ducked under the follow up cross, and acting on pure instinct drove her fingers up towards her opponents gut. However they met only air as he dodged. She began getting her bearings back, enough to block his next strike by jabbing her own chakra into the offending arm. She heard a curse and struck towards the Raikage's head, she could just make out his cold eyes moving not inches away.

Locked in close combat, they were both at the end of their endurance. The stalemate was unique, while Hinata specialized in close combat; the Raikage's sheer size equalized the duel. Hinata threw a straight punch to his face just the same as he did, and in sync they grabbed each other's fist with their free hands.

They stared into each other's eyes as they began a showdown of strength. "So, you're eyes are unsealed" the Raikage smirked, pushing hard on Hinata's arms. She started shaking despite her determination.

Then, she grinned, baring her bloodied teeth. "Dam right fuckface" she taunted, and surprising him, thrust her knee out as hard as possible into his groin. She watched in satisfaction as his eyes bulged and his grip slackened. Pushing him back away from herself, she watched him bend over, hands clutching his crutch.

"You're not supposed to do that" he wheezed.

"Fair doesn't apply to men" she said sadistically and mercilessly dispatched him when he was off guard by a jyuuken strike to his head, splattering his brains against the walls of his skull.

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Hinata sat down with the now forgotten body of the Raikage. Slowly, she drew her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. The scary thing about what she had just done: it wasn't Megumi in charge, it was all Hinata.

She began shaking as her thoughts turned to the people of the village. Even though they were Konoha's enemies, there were thousands of innocent civilians in the village that had had nothing to do with Konoha. And now they were dead. All because she had been selfish and wanted petty revenge.

'I cannot let this hurt anyone else' she thought and shakily took a kunai from her holster. It slowly rose, but then dropped harmlessly to the dirt when she felt a presence coming up behind her.

"Hinata!" Naruto cried in the smoky aftermath of the explosion. He walked through the smoky plain, feeling the dematerialized rocks crunching under his boots. "Hinata!" he yelled again.

He saw a figure kneeling in the fog, and ran up to her. "Hinata! What happened!" he shouted.

She turned around, tears streaming trails in the soot on her face. "I killed all those people" she said, her voice thick with despair.

Naruto stopped short in his tracks, his brain bouncing around trying to think of comforting words.

Sasuke surveyed the scene, seeing the dead Kage, Hinata's despairing visage, and strangely, a kunai on the ground.

'What would a completely unmarked kunai be doing on this battleground?' he wondered. He could see no obvious wounds on the Raikage and no blood on the kunai, so it couldn't have been used to finish him off. He again took in Hinata's crying face and her repeated mutterings of "I killed them. I killed them" 'She, she was going to kill herself?' he wondered in shock. 'Surely not…' Yet he couldn't be sure. Instead, he listened to what Naruto had come up with. It was cliché, but it appeared to work. Appeared.

"It wasn't your fault Hinata, that was the Nibi and the Sanbi's power colliding, you had nothing to do with it!" Naruto ensured.

Hinata fought back at first. "If I hadn't wanted my stupid revenge this would never have happened!" she screamed.

"And the Raikage would have killed hundreds more of our people!" Naruto retaliated. "And it was him that initiated that power thingy! It was his fault!" he yelled.

Hinata had already told them her brief fight. Hinata went limp and crumpled in her argument. Naruto sighed in relief to see her apparent acceptance. "Just don't beat yourself up about it" he said with a comforting hand on her shoulder. Then he tightened his grip and pulled her up. "Now let's go home."

Hinata faked a smile and agreed, thanking the two boys for helping her with her mission. She was glad for her limited eyesight that she couldn't see the burned and blackened bodies everywhere when they went back through the village, nor the personal possessions strewn through the rubble like a burnt teddy bear lying halfway up a broken wall of a wrecked home.

Sasuke and Naruto quickly took out any surviving ninja that tried to intercept them, while Hinata just walked solemnly down the center of the street, not stopping for anything. She knew her position from the sounds the two boys gave, and so could navigate fairly well so as not to walk into the mass of debris and bodies along the sides of the streets.

Eventually they were out of the destroyed village, and the three battered ninja were on their way home.

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Poor Hinata, to tank for her own good. Hope you liked.