Disclaimer: I do not own any of Naruto or its characters, but I do own my OCs. Please excuse any errors or mistakes in my story, thank you.

***I've been bummed lately because of a joke someone made about me at school. =A= Even though I'm already sorta over it, I still want to write it down on here in my AN thingy to ask you all a favor... Well this guy, he's actually made me open my eyes about how racist people still are these days because he made a joke about my race and called me "yellow". He reminds me of that guy who once came up to me saying "ching ching chong", thinking it was so funny but it actually isn't. Words that are used against someone in a mean way is like a slap on the face and sometimes they hurt more than actually getting physically hit. And now I don't feel comfortable at school anymore around all these kids who are "white" while I'm the only "yellow" one. Dear readers, I know you all must be kind people because you've put a smile on my face everytime I read your nice comments, but please, my favor is: if you ever see someone getting bullied or someone whose being racist, say something, who knows, maybe it might change something, change someone.***

Rebirth

Chapter 7: Konohagakure

"Hey did you hear about what happened?" Ino glanced tiredly to the left.

"Heard about what Sakura?" She stuck out her bottom lip, "Aren't you tired at all? It's so early!"

"I know.. But I've been thinking about what happened to Hinata," Sakura looked down at her palms that were hidden beneath mittens from the cold autumn air, "I sorta feel bad for her after the way I've treated-"

"Ya mean that weird black haired chick with the creepy eyes?" Ino shrugged as her friend nodded, "It's pretty depressing that her sister got hit by a truck-but hey, at least it's not me then I'm cool with it." The conversation ended and the two then waited for their director to arrive in silence.

"So umm, are you feeling better?" Tenten asked. Hinata held her suitcase tighter to her body as she shivered, she didn't want to talk nor look at anybody right now, she just nodded as her teeth chatted loudly. A half hour later two buses came by to pick up all the staff. They were all glad that they were out of the cold, but still curious of where their destination was going to be. If Hinata's prediction was right, the place they were going to rest at for a couple of months was called-

"Welcome to Konoha everybody," twelve hours in the bus, about almost seven in the afternoon, and they were somewhere up north of Japan, in the middle of nowhere, located in somewhere around trees.

"Where the hell are we?" Naruto shouted from his seat, then cursed and grabbed his behind, obviously sore from a long journey with only five bathroom brakes, damn Kakashi. "My god we're going to get eaten by wild animals and abominable snow mans!" There was no snow in Konoha, but collected dust on little houses that were made of wood. "We're all going to d-ow!" Sakura smacked him on the head and a giant lump grew from blonde hair. "Why'd you do that Sakura?"

"Stop scaring everyone you dumbass! You and your stupid crazy ideas-"

"But I was speaking the truth!"

"Will you just shut your mouth for once you bimbo!"

"Would both of you shut up?" The bus became quiet and the others who were eavesdropping were also still.

"Well what crawled up your ass and died, huh?" Naruto rejected and then got slapped again, "I was just wonderin'! Geez Sakura," he glared at his best friend from the corners of his eyes and grumbled, "Mr. I'm-too-good-for-everything, the annoying dude who always says 'Hn' when no one can even understand what he's saying, that prissy sour ass moth-"

"Na-ru-to!" Sakura yelled and in a couple seconds he screamed then was silenced by Kakashi. The buses stopped and slowly everyone stepped out of them. It was like foreign soil, like they were all in a whole new different country. The stink of dung and wizz hung in the air but there was this odd feeling, it felt like something was watching them, something breathing behind their backs. Leaves flew as the breeze blew them across the clearing. The silouette of a man came towards the group.

"Whhhyyyy hello there!" He had an orange mask over his face and he wore all black, "You guys must be the group from Tokyo! Come, come, let Tobi show you all to Ame-oh! How rude of Tobi not to introduce myself!" His voice was insanely high like a little boy and was about six feet tall, "I'm Tobi and Tobi's a good boy!" Everyone sweat dropped. Serously? Was this dude retarded or something? "Miss Konan! Miss Konan we have guests!" A blue haired woman turned around.

"Ah, which one of you is Hatake Kakashi?" The white haired man stepped forward and started filling paperwork on the front desk. Some of the group also went inside the old building with a sign written "Ame Hotel" others stayed outside to observe the scenery.

"Man this place is a dump," Naruto stated and Sasuke ignored him. They both strolled around the side of a cliff nearby and looked upon the lucious green surrounding them. "Hey there's a trail there!" He pointed to a muddy strip of land that led into the forest, "O-oh hey! Hey you!" A girl was walking along that trail, "Hey can you hear me? Heeey!" His voice echoed throughout the scenery. Sasuke stared at the girl walking.

"Stop right there!" Sasuke took a step closer to the edge of the cliff and narrowed his eyes at the symbol on her back and then they widened.

"S-Sas-Sa-Sas-Sasuke!" Naruto's voice rose an octave higher as his hand clenched onto his friend's shoulder. The Uchiha glanced at the idiot then back at the girl. "L-look! She has no footprints in the mud!" And Naruto was right, there was no footprint and her dark silky blue kimono seem to not even get dirty as it was being dragged along. Her black hair that was held tightly in a bun disappeared as she crossed paths with a tree, only the bottom half of her body kept walking along the dirt path then fades as it walks further into the forest.

The two were a sight to behold. One with his mouth partially opened and the other was squaking and dancing like a monkey half breed he probably was. Everything was calm and quiet, a couple birds flew in a V line, then they dispersed as a loud yell rang through the whole village. "Holy shit!" The blonde put either hands around his head as he screamed what was on his mind, "Holy shit, holy shit, holy mother fuckin' shit dude!" He started to crouch down but was pulled up by someone.

"Shut the hell up!" Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the collar and punched his cheek, "Cool down," Naruto's eyes were still wide but he stopped opening his mouth, "This.. What just happened; never did," he walked away and towards the Hotel they were supposed to be in right now, leaving his friend behind.

"What was all that commotion about Sasuke?" Kakashi looked like he wasn't really concerned as his droopy eye looked upon his dead friend's nephew but was ignored by him. When Naruto walked by he assumed they had probably gotten into another fight. Maybe it was about Sakura again, or it was about one not being able to understand another or maybe it was something different this time. Kakashi sighed, those two were like a fighting couple. Two opposite forces, fire and ice-no, fire and wind because Naruto always seem to blow more fuel to Sasuke's fire.

"follow me everyone," Konan said in a monotone voice. She led the group to the second level and the stairs creaked as they stepped on it; she stopped by two giant double doors with deers painted on them and slided them open but didn't step in. "This is the dining room where all of you shall eat-"

"Why can't we just eat in our own rooms instead?" Ino rose a brow at her and crossed her arms, "And why is everything so old fashion here?"

"You are forgetting that this building is over a century old, we Akatsuki do not like to change this type of ancient archetecture," she replied.

"It's ancient alright," one person made a joke and some others laughed, Kakashi elbowed Kiba on the side to quiet him down and show at least a bit more respect to the person speaking.

"Who lived here before in this building?"

"The Nara clan, they specialized with breeding animals, especially known for taming bucks and doe's in wild forests," glances were passed to Shikamaru and he sighed loudly then mumbled something about what a drag everything was.

Ino and Sakura shared a room together with Temari; Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara were in the room on the left; Kiba, Shino and Shikamaru were in the room next to Sasuke's and Asuma, Iruka and Kakashi were in a room to the far right of the second floor. On the third level of the house, Kurenai and Tenten and Hinata were put in a bedroom that was next to another smaller one that was locked. Hinata promptly wondered why the door was locked and Konan wouldn't let them go in but just told them that the room was empty. So why lock it?

Asuma helped carry Kurenai's bags and sighed as he laid them down. They smiled to eachother, almost like a private conversation was going on between eyes and lips. Hinata watched as when Asuma left, Kurenai unpacked her items and laid the futon out. Her hand slowly massaged her belly and a grin graced her lips. "A-are you hungry?" The other black haired girl looked at the Hyuga and laughed.

"No, I'm fine," her hand brushed through her wavy, layered locks, "I was just thinking of a name," Hinata glanced at the woman's belly then at her face, the idea came into her mind as her cheeks flustered red, Kurenai then laughed and prepared for a bath. Hinata did the same as she did, both chatting quietly about how adorable babies were and what were good names and what not.

Finally time to go to bed, Hinata felt refreshed after that nice hot bath with the girls and she left before her fingertips could become pruny. She walked slowly up the stairs, careful not to step onto her nightgown and trip. She crept closer to her room she shared with others but stopped as she started to slide it open. She stared at the smaller door then shrugged as she entered the room to see Tenten changing. As Hinata got into her bed she had remembered that she left her toothbrush by the bathroom sink so she got back up and ran to the bathroom, just in case some pervert did something inappropiate with it. She sighed and relaxed as the stick with brustles rested in her hands, then she started forth to her room again. While opening her door, her eyes spotted something different. The locked door wasn't locked anymore, in fact it was partially opened. Smoke crawled out of the door and it smelled like someone was burning paper. Should she go in and peek who was in there, or should she just ignore it? Hinata thought of the ways she could escape if she were to get caught, then thought of who would be behind this door. The hell with it, Hinata inhaled loudly and slid the door open all the way and gasped. A pale arm reached out from the mysterious room and it snaked around Hinata's bust as the other covered her mouth, all of a sudden she was pulled into the room and the door closed, as if nothing had happened.

Hinata struggled as her arms were held above her head. Breathing. Breathing besides her own was above her and she could feel it on her neck. Blood pumped feverishly through her veins and Hinata swore she would have died of a heart attack at this very moment; she kicked and thrashed as much as possible and tried to yell for help but something was still covering her mouth.

"Hnnnn," the thing above her groaned and she could feel something hard grinding into her pelvis. Hinata's eyes widened as she also felt warm water trace all about on her neck and forehead, this made her panic even more as she struggled to get free. She was going to be raped!

Suddenly a loud scream was heard, the thing above her vanished in an instant and Hinata bursted out the door in a second. She held onto the railing and huffed in air, whatever that thing was, it violated her and she had no intention of ever finding out what was in there, but... She turned her head to the side and and looked back at the pitch blackness in the room and slowly sat down. Her pupils dialated as red eyes glared into her own. Those eyes. That color. The three tomas.. They were just like-

"Sakura!" Someone yelled. It was Naruto. Hinata looked down at the pink haired girl who was crying, then she glanced back at the little door behind her, it was closed and locked like nothing had ever happened. Hinata continued staring at the scene before and a twist of guilt and anger ran through her body. Sakura's eyes were wide like she had seen a ghost, her breath was erratic and she clung onto Naruto. "It's going to be okay," the boy hushed her and almost everyone were around to witness.

Sakura shut her eyes tightly to erase that memory of the man. Shhh.. Don't tell anybody. Her eyes snapped open again and she looked above her with watery eyes. There he was again.. Glaring down at her, sitting behind the railing on the third floor. She continued watching in horror as he slowly stood up, then went into a bedroom behind himself and there was only one other person who shared that room that wasn't here. Sakura made a mental note to see Hinata in the morning.

This chapter was sort of a drag to write because I tried to add alot of people in here that I felt didn't get enough time to be read upon in this story so far because they all play an important part.. I don't think I put enough details into the door by Hinata's room, it's actually half the size of a regular door.

~Aika