Tsunade study the team she had picked out for this mission, Team 7 was perfect for the job, but the last member she was hesitant to send out. It was not because this person lacked skill in the position they were going to play, hell she was the best there was at the game right now but sending her out with little information about the people that were after her, Tsunade did not want to take that chance. She would have gladly sent Neji or some other Byakugan user if they were available but Hinata was her only option. The blond sighed as she rubbed her temples tiredly, this mission had better end with a good ending.
There was a knock at the door.
"Hello? Hokage-sama?" Hinata voice rang.
"Ah come in Hinata." the 5th said to the shy kunoichi.
Hinata walked in and bowed before standing straight to look eye to eye with the Hokage. A whining sound came from outside as the door open, a blond holding his head, a pinkette fuming with her fist clenched and a stoic raven with his arms folded entered the room.
"Oh Hinata-chan you're coming on this mission too?" Naruto asked.
Hinata only nodded. Sakura bit down on her bottom lip, trying not to scream out, why was Hinata going on this mission she would just slow them down. She seriously wanted to voice her opinion on the matter and knowing how much Sasuke hates Hinata, he would probably side with her on the this if for just this once, but the medical-nin decided against it, knowing that her master would probably break her in two before she could complete one sentence.
"It's a rather simple mission really. You are to investigate the whereabouts of Nirumi Morma, he just probably a pawn to the bigger fish but I want you to check him out and if you can bring him in for questioning, then ok." Tsunade said.
"You shouldn't celebrate yet." a voice called.
Hinata opened her eyes but she her eyesight was blurred, she turned her body in all direction, her teeth were gritted tightly and her palms up, she heard a dark laugh.
"You can't see one fuck can you?" he asked.
"What exactly does he do?" Naruto asked.
"That sick bastard, uses people body parts and organs and sells them for his own personal gain." she said.
"That's disgusting." Sakura said.
"So we're going after a killer, who chops his victims up alive and then sells them." the Uchiha said.
The Hokage made a face.
"That's right."
Naruto made a puking sound.
"What kind of sick bastard does that?" he said through gritted teeth.
"Apparently Nirumi. You're mission will start in Land of Rivers and continue from there, this is a S-rank mission and it may last for over a month, so you have plenty time to find something. Sasuke is your team leader, you leave in an hour the sooner you start the more progress you'll make. Dismissed." Tsunade said.
"Hai." they answered.
Sasuke was the fist to leave and Naruto followed swiftly behind both Hinata and Sakura bowed in respect before she followed the boys out. Tsunade watched them as they leave going back into her thoughts, she hoped this mission ends well.
He gave a dark chuckle as he advance on the scared man chained to the ground in the cell. The smile on his face made the man shuddered and his eyes open wide as he heard the blade of the sword being unsheathed and the blade shining in the little light from the little window.
"How should I do this hm?" the swordsman asked still smiling and evil glint in his eyes. "Slow or fast?"
He was standing in front of the man now eyes glazed with a killing intent.
"NO! NO! I beg of you! Please spare me!" the man pleaded.
The dark man only laughed as he raised his sword over his head and brought it down smiling at the blood that flowed and the arm that was sliced off clean.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the poor man screamed as he his other hand was sliced off he same was.
It went on like that, for at least fifteen minutes until there was nothing but body parts and organs and blood everywhere. Someone else came rushing.
"Nirumi-sama!" he announced.
The bloody man turn to face him.
"The boss would like to see you." the servant said.
Nirumi grinned broadly sheathing his sword he walked out of the cell.
"Clean this up will you." he said to the smaller man.
"Hai. Nirumi-sama." the man said.
"The Land of Rivers." Sakura mused, she then looked over at Naruto. "Isn't that where the Akatsuki had take Gaara-sama?"
Naruto eyes harden.
"Yeah."
"So you guys know where we're going." Sasuke stated.
"Yeah Teme of course we do." Naruto shouted.
The Uchiha rolled his eyes as he landed on another tree branch before leaping into the air again. Hinata quietly followed behind them, keeping up with their fast pace with little trouble.
"Hyuga can't you run any faster." Sasuke asked.
"Eh?" she asked.
Sasuke grunted but didn't bother telling her again, he hated repeating himself.
'Teme leave Hinata-chan alone. She keeping up fine." Naruto defended on Hinata's behalf.
The survivor of the Uchiha clan ignored the blond's words.
"It's getting dark." Hinata observed.
"We're not stopping." Sasuke stated.
"Let's go!" Sakura ordered going faster than she was before.
"Hinata can you use your Byakugan and tell us what you see." Naruto requested.
"Hai." the Hyuga said activated her Byakugan.
Her eyes roamed the dark forest, seeing everything in their path when her eyes spotted something that was truly odd.
"There's a hideout at nine o'clock." she stated.
They nodded changing their direction and heading the spot that Hinata had located.
Five pairs of feet landing on the ground with solid thuds, they stared at the huge building in front of them and waited for Hinata to give her analysis on it.
"It's empty, but I can still feel chakra inside. The hideout is pretty big, we'll have to spilt up if we're going to search." she concluded.
"Ok. Naruto you take the east, I'll take the west, Sakura take the south and Hyuga you take the north. Got it?" Sasuke explained.
"Yeah teme." Naruto said.
"Of course Sasuke-kun." Sakura answered with a smirk.
"Hai." Hinata replied.
Using the Body Flicker Technique they disappeared into the building.
"This better be good." Nirumi said as he walked in.
The man smiled with evil intent.
"I have a job for you." he said.
"Will it involve blood?' the sadistic man asked.
"Her blood will be your reward." his boss answered.
"What do I have to do?" The Morma asked with a broad smile.
This girl would have to be something if his boss wanted her dead so much, he was going to enjoy himself hunting her down and slicing her into pieces while hearing her voice plea for him to stop.
Running through the corridors Naruto searched every room he came across, he wanted to find this bastard and put him out of his misery, who did those kind of things to innocent people?
Sakura slowly walked through the halls, cautiously looking into the rooms she were suppose to search, and in every room there was nothing that could be any help to them. These part were exceptionally clean as if they knew that they were coming to check up on it, the pinkette eyes narrowed. This was one fucked up hideout.
Sasuke eyed his surrounding, there was blood everywhere and the faint scent of dead bodies that were probably rotten out. He opened one of the cells and looked in, only seeing blood that was splattered all over, this person was a psycho he thought.
Hinata used her Byakugan and looked through the walls to the other side, she gasped what she was seeing with on another level of horrible. She walked towards the door and opened it slowly hearing the creaking sound she felt like if she was in some horror movie and was about to be eaten alive. Looking around, Hinata was sure she was in a mad scientiset room, she clapsed one hand over her mouth as she stared with shocked eyes at all the body parts in the room, it looked like something Orchimaru would do. Hinata went out she still had other rooms to search.
Meeting up again, the team sat down to share what they found out with the others.
"I didn't find anything on my end." Sakura said.
"Me neither." Naruto agreed.
"Sasuke-kun what did you find?" Sakura asked.
"Blood." he simply stated.
"Ano. I found out where he used to store his um...souvenirs." Hinata piped in.
They all looked at her.
"...Souvenirs...?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke and Sakura both groaned at the blond's densness.
"The body parts and organs he usually sells." Sakura explained. "Damn Naruto you're such a baka."
Naruto scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
"Yeah, uh, I knew that."
The Uchiha rolled his eyes and Hinata gave a small giggle.
"So what are we going to do?" Sakura asked.
"There's nothing do to except blow this place up and start over fresh tomorrow." the Sharingan user stated.
Sakura smirked.
"Let me." she offered.
The other three got back as far as they could, fixing her glove Sakura punched the ground resulting in rocks and glass flying all over. Bringing herself up from her bending position Sakura dusting her gloves with a smile.
"That's that." she said turning to face the others.
"Let's go." Sasuke said turning to leap onto a tree branch.
The others followed quickly behind.
"Do you think that they'll be ok Tsunade-sama." Shizune asked.
"Hai." Tsunade said as she looked out the window. "They are all right for the mission."
"But what about Hinata?" her first apprentice asked.
"She's strong, she can handle herself and if she gets into any trouble she all know Naruto will help her." the 5th said with a smile.
Shizune had to smile also at the mention of Naruto.
"Hai." she said.
Tsunade looked over the village with a serious expression on her face, her thoughts drifted to Hinata, this mission was putting her in so much danger and yet she just had to go on it. If only she knew more on what she was dealing with, it would make this ordeal much easier on her. The fifth gave a long sigh, what on earth was she going to, this man was playing a game and all the cards were in his hand.
His sword made a dent in the ground from the force he threw it with, Nirumi stared at the demolished sight of his hideout, the money that he was going to get from selling those body parts had gone down the drain!
"Nirumi-sama what are you going to do?" on of the men wth him asked.
The Morma picked his sword up and turned with speed and cut the man in half.
"Foolish bastard. Don't you know not to talk when I'm angry?" he asked the dead man before smirking and stocking off.
"So what's the plan." Naruto asked.
"Since we have nothing to go on now, we're just going to have to search this whole land until we find something." Sasuke said.
They nodded.
"Are we spliting up?" Hinata asked.
Sasuke stared at her.
"Yes we're splitting up we'll cover more ground that way." he said.
Hinata nodded before taking off in the western direction, Sasuke looked his other teammates and they nodded to before going off in the directions they picked, Sasuke stayed going straight ahead.
She looked over the building, seeing nothing she should be worried about, she made her way inside, hearing only her steps echoe as she walked through the halls. Hinata stopped walking, her body stiffened at the unknown charka she felt.
"What, you aren't scared are you?" a cold voice asked.
Hinata turned her head slowly with wide eyes to see a man behind her smiling evilly. Her hands came to shield her face as the man punched her sending her crashing into a room, the blue haired kunoichi groaned as she opened her eyes, hearing footsteps coming her way she got up reactivating her Byakugan, her eyes opened wide when she saw that she couldn't see the shinobi.
"Surprised." he asked when he was in front of her.
Hinata eyes narrowed.
"Why can't I see you?" she asked.
The man chuckled.
"Me? Don't you mean us?" he asked.
Hinata head whiped to her left as she dodge the blade that was for her, putting her palms to face up, she turned in a circle making large streams of chakra to flow from her arms making a grid around her body, making the shinobi in the room to back off and all their weapons useless against her.
Hinata smirked once she sopped spinning.
"Just because you can hide from my Byakugan...that's doesn't mean you can hide from me." she told them.
The first one with the more built up body chuckled.
"You are quite something. No wonder the boss wants you dead." he said aiming his sword at her.
Hinata quickly moved out of the way, appearing behind him and gently placing her palm to his back and infusing her chakra, he let out a pained grunt before swiping at her again knocking her a feet away. There was a poof of smoke and a log appeared.
They all looked around frantically.
"That bitch used the substitution jutsu on us. Find her. Or you're all dead." the leader said.
"H-hai! Nirumi-sama." one said before running after the others to look for Hinata.
Running at full speed in the forest Hinata tried to find at least one of the others, she was able to get away when they were fighting her decoy but she didn't know how long it would be until the figure out and come looking for her, and since she can't see them they would have the upper hand. She hid behind a tree when a kunai flew her way, they had caught up to her already, this was bad.
"Thought you could trick us you little bitch." one said.
Hinata came out from behind the tree, even if she had to force herself she won't loose to them.
"So you're going to fight us now?" another asked.
Hinata said nothing at first and them man gritted his teeth running towards her with his fist in the air to strike her, the shy girl moved making his fist strike air, his eyes opened when he felt a pang of pain in his side, turning his body he was kicked to the ground by Hinata.
Staring at him Hinata opened her mouth.
"I can do more that just use my Byakugan." she stated.
Turning to face the other shinobi that were there she narrowed her eyes and got into a Gentle Fist stance as she watched as all of them come at her. They were fast, faster than her, she wouldn't come out of this fight without a scratch, she bend back to dodge the fist that came at her face, using her hands for balance, Hinata lifted her feet up and wrapped them around the enemy's body, spinning in a circle she released his body making him hit into a tree. Flipping upright she was greeted with a cold steel blade cutting her upper arm and coming back for another try, twisting her body in a circle she blocked both attacks that came at her from both side and using her palms she pulled both males into each other, causing them to back up a little light headed and confused.
Hinata disappeared, having the shinobi there to search for her, hearing a scream from one of their comrades and they turned to see his lifeless body falling to the ground with a kunia embedded in his back, they turned to see Hinata glaring at them and they all attacked again. Hinata activated her Byakugan one more time, sacrifices are made to protect her village. Straining her eyes Hinata focus solely on trying to see their tenketsu, even if it meant her getting bloodied in the process, she felt one go through her stomach and she ignored it kicking the shinobi with a infused kick he was set flying back, her eyes started to hurt and she faintly saw their chakra passageways and points, she smirked, it was time she finished this with a bang.
Knocking a few shinobi away from her, she crouched low with her palms outstretched.
"Hakke Rokujuyon Sho." she whispered.
There were only screams of pain and the sound of bodies slumping to the ground, Hinata stopped, breathing hard and closing her eyes, that had taken a lot of her chakra to do and now she was extremely exhausted but she couldn't help but smile.
"You shouldn't celebrate yet." a voice said.
Hinata eyes shot opened, but she couldn't see anything since her eyesight was blurry, the voice gave a chuckle, Hinata turned her body in every direction, her palms facing up and her teeth gritted tightly together searching.
"You can't see anything can you?" he asked.
"Seeing isn't the only thing I can do." she yelled.
The man only chuckled again.
"Stupid bitch." he called as he punched her over and over until they got to the end of the cliff.
"Die." he said giving her one last punch, but Hinata grabbed onto him tightly.
The man shruggled in her hold and she infused her chakra into his body making him go numb.
"Wh-what are you doing?" he yelled at her.
"If I die then you die too." she said as they both fell into the water.
"Stupid bitch." he shouted before there was a loud splash.
"You can't defeat me." the man said to Naruto.
Naruto smirked wiping the blood that was on his face away, before his eyes turned serious, making his signature hand sign, creating a clone Naruto gather chakra in his hand as he faced the sole male shinobi in front of him, the man only smirked but that faltered when he saw what Naruto held in his hand. Naruto held his hand high in the air as the Rasengan that looked so much like a shuriken before he charged at the man.
"Bastard!" he shouted cutting the man in half.
Naruto watched the place where the ninja just stood and in his place were a pile of ashes.
There was the sound of bones cracking as Sakura's fist landed in the man's cheek sending him flying back from the force ofthe impact, she ran towards him, jumping in the air and kicking the shinobi into the ground leaving a huge crater were he laid. Sakura stood at the side of the hole glaring down at the amn that was there, he spat blood out of his mouth at her and Sakura just gave him one of her fake smiles, hitting her foot into the ground making the gravel gave in she turned and walked away.
Sasuke seemed to be enjoying himself, making a bloodfest out of the people who opposed him, his eyes red and black, as he showed the last few remainders the world he wanted them to see. In his world, they were strapped to crosses as a number of him surrounded them each with a sword in hand, and each driving the sword as for as they could into the shinobi bodies, hearing their pain filled cries he smiled and watched with emptiness as their bodies hung there lifeless. There was one more he had to deal with and his counterparts stepped aside as he made his way through them to him.
The man smiled at him knowing what he was going to do.
"What are you looking for Uchiha? Expecting to see your mother or father or mayby your big brother?" he asked.
He was answered with a punch in his stomach. He oughed up all the blood he had left and stared one eyed at the very enraged raven and smiled.
"Hit a nerve?" he asked.
Sasuke raised his sword over his head and with one swipe chopped the man's head off. Everything became clear again and Sasuke looked around when he felt his teammates chakra.
"Sasuke-kun you're ok." Sakura said.
The Uchiha didn't answered her.
"Where is the Hyuga." he sked.
They all looked around.
"Shit." Naruto shouted before running off again.
She came up breathing in fresh air and looking around but her eyes were still blurry and her right leg had a deep cut and was hurting she was pretty sure that it was broken, she came out better than the other ninja who was now floating at the bottom of the river. Hinata could barely make out the riverbank and using all of her will power and little strength she swam to shore pulling herself out of the water and sitting down and doing all she could to help her leg.
Hinata heard footsteps behind her and she turned her body to the sound, but the pain in her leg kept her down.
"Easy Hyuga." Sasuke velvet voice called.
"Sasuke-kun?" she questioned.
"Damn Hinata-chan. You look pretty beat up." Naruto voice piped in.
Hinata looked around trying to figure out where they were.
"What's with you Hyuga?" Sasuke asked pretty agitated.
"I can't see." she answered.
She felt a pressence beside her and the pain in her leg was starting to go away.
"What do you mean you can't see?" Naruto asked.
"My eyesight is still blurry from overusing my Byakugan. Gomenasai." she said bowing her head.
"Aww it's ok Hinata-chan." Naruto said.
"There, I healed your arm too Hinata so you should be good." Sakura said.
"Arigoto Sakura-san." Hinata said as she tried to get up but fell only to be held up by someone.
"Guess you still can't walk and it's obvious you can't see, so we'll find some place to camp for the night." Sasuke voice cut in.
Hinata was going say something when Sasuke picked her up bridalstyle.
"Sa-Sauke-kun!" she squealed.
"Just shut up and let me carry you." The Uchiha hissed at her.
Hinata shut up at once, as she looked down with her still fuzzy eyes and she did not witness the angry glare that Sakura gave her as they walked ahead to find a place to stay for the night.
Hinata was slowly waking up when she heard voices talking.
"Sasuke-kun, she is weak, if it wasn't for her we wouldn't be camping out in a cave for the night." Sakura whined.
"Sakura I don't give a shit about what you think. Even if Hinata wasn't hurt we wouldn't have been able to keep going since we were low on chakra." The raven retorted.
Sakura groaned loudly it could have been similar to a muffled scream.
"She is dead weight on our team Sasuke! If Hinata wasn't here we would have have been further in the mission right now don't you get that! She is weak Sasuke-kun!" the medical-nin yelled.
Hinata felt her stomach knot up at those words, was she really that much of a burden to the team.
"C'mon Sakura-chan, don't say that about Hinata-chan she works hard to be acknowledge just like me." Naruto cut in.
The pinkette just seem to scoff at Naruto's words.
"Sakura why don't you and Naruto go and look for some food." Sasuke asked.
"Finally I'm getting hungry." Naruto said running out of the cave.
"Whatever." Sakura said walking after the blond.
When everything was quiet and he was sure that they were in hearing reach he called out to the 'sleeping' girl.
"Wake up Hyuga they're gone." he said coldly.
Hinata opened her eyes and sat up, looking around she could see clearly and her eyes snapped to Sasuke when he began to speak.
"You heard everything Sakura said didn't you?" he asked.
"I'm sorry." Hinata said softly looking down.
The Uchiha grunted.
"Don't apologize, we all got ambush, you just got a harder hit." he said.
Hinata looked up at him again, surprised written in her face, did Sasuke Uchiha just complimented her on her strength? No she must be hearing things.
"Hyuga." he called.
She blinked before she focused her gaze on him again.
"I mean that." he said.
Hinata smiled softly.
"Arigoto...Sasuke-kun."