The Good, The Evil and The Not Involved.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Summary: They moved to a new town, by force or by choice, no one is quite sure. All they know is they want them on side. SasuTen, NaruHina, ShikaTema.

Authors Note: Sorry about the late update, been away for over a month. And sorry its soo different from the rest of the story.

warm yourself by the fire son

the morning will come soon

I'll tell you stories of a better time

in a place that we once knew.

Prayer of a Refugee, Rise Against.

Hinata was running - well, she was being dragged.

One person had one hand, and someone else the other. She had no idea what had happened, it had passed in a blur. All she knew was she was glad they weren't pulling her in separate directions. They had cleared a street or two, but she had no idea why they had run.

The roads were dark, and her feet were slamming on the rough tarmac. During the fight, she had managed to lose one shoe, but she seemed to not remember how exactly it had happened. She couldn't remember much in all honesty. It seemed like a blur of throwing her hands around, kicking and being kicked.

In the background she could hear a distant sound, the sirens of an emergency vehicle.

"Tenten!" She gasped, throwing her feet into the ground. She tried to wriggle her hands free, but they held on tight. They both stopped and faced her, their faces nervous and beaten. At least she knew she was being taken by her friends.

"She left a while back with Sasuke," Kiba hurriedly informed her, tugging on her hands. "Come on!"

Hinata didn't want to, but she knew she had too. She lifted a foot off the ground, and began to run with them again.

"Will we meet them at the house?" Hinata asked as they ran. Her bare foot was sore from where she had tried to stop them moving her.

"Not tonight, no," Naruto told her.

"We will all have to split up for the night, we can't go to the house. We will see them around though," Kiba explain in brief. "Or we will see them at school. We will sort out with them on that day where we stay. We can't go back there, and you can't go back home."

It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why. Hinata bit her lip. When Sasuke tells Tenten this, she won't like it one bit. She had been trying to stay out of things like this, staying out of commitments, but now they were caught in the middle of one. Hinata was glad, more people meant more protection. If they were caught up in similar difficulties as themselves, then they will be moving around too. They don't have to tell them what is up with them, they can use their excuse... It was safer, for them both. But Tenten was more independent, she wouldn't see this point of view. All she will see is more people in danger, and will take this upon her own shoulders.

"Oi, Uzamaki, do you have your gun on you still?" Kiba asked.

"Yeh, why?" Naruto replied. They were talking as quietly as they could, while being able to hear one another.

"I lost mine in the fight, and travelling by foot is getting us no where. We need something with an engine," Kiba explained.

In the darkness, Hinata could see a faint bob of the head, and they began to slow. Moving into the centre of the road, they began to walk. So far they were yet to see a car, and Hinata hoped one would come along soon.

As they walked, the road began to curve, and soon came to a road about. Walking straight over, they walked onto a bridge type road, where a motor way runs underneath.

Naruto dropped Hinata's hand, and walked to the edge, leaning over.

"Safe to jump?" Kiba asked.

"Don't see why not," Naruto answered. Hinata knew he would have been giving his wolf like grin. Before Hinata or Kiba had a chance to walk further then two steps, Naruto had jumped the edge. Kiba looked at Hinata, and nodded to himself and her, and began to run.

"Three, two... ONE!" Kiba half yelled. At one, Kiba jumped, and Hinata caught on just in time to jump as well. Holding in a scream, they landed on the tarmac below.

"We have a better chance of finding a car here," Naruto said.

"No shit Sherlock," Kiba sneered, letting go of Hinata's hand. They began to walk along slowly, side by side, hoping for a car to come along soon.

*

"Hey, lazy arse, what's the plan this time then?" Temari asked the male in the drivers seat beside her. They had managed to escape in the vehicle Shikamaru had turned up in.

"We are going to head back to the house, pick up anything that may be off any value to them, and scarper," Shikamaru replied, leaning his head against the window gently, fighting the urge to close his eyes. "If we run into any of the others, its a bonus. We can't afford to look for them though."

Temari nodded in understanding. The same as always. Some plans never change.

*

"Hey here comes a car," Naruto cheered. He drew out his gun and aimed it before the wheels of the car, and shot. He didn't want to damage the car, for they needed it. Instead of the car screeching to a halt, like usual, this one carried on but slowed slightly, stopping before them.

Slowly, the blacked out window rolled down, first showing four spiky, sand coloured, ponytails, then two sparkling blue eyes, then finally a smirking mouth.

"Need a lift?" Temari asked, smirking at them all.

"Bonus!" Naruto cheered, as he ran to the back seat throwing the door open. Kiba followed, rushing in also, before Hinata got in at a more normal pace. "What happens now? I have never been in the escape vehicle before. Always been one of the ones on foot."

"We go back to the house, get the stuff of value, then lie low," Temari told them in brief. "Almost the same as what you normally do, but we do the home stop."

Naruto bobbed his head in a nod. Hinata felt weird. This was the first time since she had left home she would be spending any substantial amount of time away from Tenten; especially when there is danger. She knew she had nothing to worry about, but she was however worried about Tenten. It was just her and Sasuke, would they be OK? She hoped so.

She lent her elbow on the edge of the door, and pushed her arm against the window, resting her head against it. She looked out of the window, but due to the colour she could see little, so instead she focused on the blurs of reds, whites and oranges of lights that passed.

Her eyes felt heavy, she had had a long day that was exhausting in more ways then one, but no matter what she wasn't going to sleep till they were safely in a bed. They still had a bit of a journey yet before they were out of the danger zone, and she wasn't going to sleep until that had passed.

Conversation was lacking in the car, and she couldn't pin point a reason. Temari, Hinata knew, saw little point in small talk, and tended only to get involved in the heated discussions, arguments, tormenting and deep conversations. Hinata had heard Shikamaru say little that wasn't needed, he preferred not to waste his breath or energy on talking. But Kiba and Naruto... they didn't know how to shut their mouths. Or so Hinata thought.

She had doubts that they would be worried for the two missing party members, they have been through this a lot. So if that was the case, why were they so quiet?

In all honesty, she didn't care, but it gave her something to ponder while trying to stay awake. Quiet was a rare thing in her current life, but the minute she has a while of it, she loses something to think about.

"We are here..." Temari said gently. It seemed she too had noticed the unusual silence, and taken it as they had fallen asleep. "We don't all need to go in. You three stay here."

Hinata nodded. In a way she wanted to go with them, give her something to do, but at the same time, she understood Temari's reasoning. They didn't all need to be there any way.

"Just be alert. Open both the car doors," Shikamaru instructed them, as he left the immediate area of the car, and headed to their front door.

They did as they were told. Hinata swung her legs out of the car, and left them dangling there. The breeze was soothing on her hot, bruised skin. She felt beaten, and it wasn't till she had exerted the energy after having that rest, that she realised just how bad she felt. They always say when you stop, you drop. She never really got it till now.

She kept her eyes alert, and tried to do the same with her mind, but though she was thinking of small things, silly things, that had nothing to do with anything, she couldn't seem to focus her mind. It was distracted, and that's how it wanted to stay. Even just looking at a leaf set her off on a random chain of thoughts of no return. She knew it came from having a tired mind.

She sighed to herself, and began to slowly kick her legs to and fro. She knew she gave away so much in her body language to any one watching, but there was nothing she could do about it.

Temari and Shikamaru returned sooner then she had expected. They only had two small bags in their hands.

"We only grabbed the laptops, and any phones and note books laying around. No need to take food or clothes, they leave no traces behind of who we are," Temari said, putting it down by her feet in the front of the car. Hinata spun back into the car, and closed the door, doing her seat belt up.

She heard the other doors slam shut, and the seat belts click, and the weirdest feeling came over her; she felt safe.

Here, in the blacked out range rover style car, she felt safe. She felt like she was in a tank, surrounded by FBI agents. Or she felt she may as well be.

She had never felt so secure in her life.

*

"Hey Hinata," Someone said, shaking her slightly.

"Mmm..." She moaned, opening her eyes slowly.

"We're there," Temari told her. It was Temari who had been shaking her awake.

"Who long have I been out for?" Hinata asked quietly, her mind still clouded with sleep. She lifted her arms to stretch, and every muscle in her body ached. Cringing she undid her seat belt, and slowly got out of the car, her head pounding as her feet touched the floor.

"About half an hour," Temari told her, walking slightly ahead of her, leading her to the hotel. "We have booked the rooms, me and you are sharing a room, and then the boys are."

Hinata nodded. In her sleepy state, she really didn't care. All she wanted was a bed, and a nice long rest. Every step was currently agony, but she couldn't make herself walk faster to get it over with.

*

"I think we may have to just get a hotel," Sasuke said to her. They hadn't stopped moving as of yet, and their feet were being too feel worse for wear, but Tenten knew if she stopped now, then she wouldn't be moving again for a while.

"What about the others?" Tenten asked wearily. Truth be told; she didn't really care.

"We will just have to stick to the normal plan," Sasuke replied. He received a blank look. "Oh right, yeah... Well basically, we stay in a hotel for a few days, lie low. Then meet up with them at school, and figure out what to do then."

"So we don't meet up with them till then?" Tenten questioned.

"No. We just wait," Sasuke stated. It made sense.

They began to walk again, though Tenten had no idea where to go, she just had to trust Sasuke.

"Have you ever been stuck alone after something like this?" Tenten asked, trying to take her mind off of her feet and aches.

"Usually," He replied. "Usually I end up on my own. I'm not much of a people person. Or never was. I always have had the intentions to help others, but never to start the conversations with them. I never know what to say. Well in all honesty, I didn't care about what they had to say. So I spent a lot of time on my own. I fought alone, I ran alone. I always knew they were safe."

"What made you change then?" Tenten felt like the twenty question machine.

"Time I guess," Sasuke sighed. "Though I spent time on my own, when I was with them, I could always hear them. They aren't exactly quiet people. And as I heard their conversation, the ease of it, it made me wonder what it was like to be able to do that. To be a part of the teasing, the talking, and the joking. I was friends with them all, but it was a silent, unspoken friendship; and I wondered what it was like to be part of the main picture. So I began to sit with them, and slowly I picked up on the gist and began to join in, and before I knew it, I was in the main frame."

Tenten nodded in understanding.

"Without knowing it I began to become a different person," He finished.

They walked along in a thoughtful silence for some time. The air was still, and the night seemed empty, void of life. Tenten had never felt so alone, but what confused her most, was she never felt so much like she belonged. She belonged in this moment. She belonged with them. And as she realised this, the loneliness of the night seemed to drift away, making Tenten feel light headed.

"Sasuke?" She said his name as a question, almost like it was the only thing she could do. She hadn't said anything but questions for a while now, not that he minded. He lifted his head and eyes, looking at her, urging her to continue. "Have you ever had a feeling... a feeling that seems to take over your body?" He looked at her again. From the silence he could hear her breathing, almost hear her brain working. "One so strong it blocks out pain? So... so strong that it overwhelms you?"

"I... I... couldn't say..." Sasuke was thinking. "I know the feeling... but I can't pin point a time that I have felt it. I suppose... I guess that at the time I felt it, I didn't realise I was feeling it until I lost it..."

The silence took over again, but this time, Tenten began to see the surroundings in a new light. It felt like the night had emptied itself for her, to give her the space she had been unknowingly craving. The space to make room for this enormous feeling.

"Why do you ask?" It was his turn to ask the questions now. "What do you feel?"

"For the first time in my life, I feel like I belong," She smiled to herself. The feeling was welcome, but she didn't want to mistaken Sasuke for thinking it was happiness she felt. "But it's more then that. You would expect that it would make me feel happy, and although I feel like smiling, I don't feel the happiness of the smile. I feel full, but that's all I feel, all I feel is the emotion. I feel nothing physical. I know that any smile I crack isn't empty, but it's not a smile of happiness, but a smile of a complete being..."

She couldn't get what she felt into words. It was a funny thing she was feeling, and she had no way of explaining it, and the only way he would get it was if he had felt it.

"I think... I think I understand you," He smirked. "It brings something from the back of my memory, something distant. I know what you mean, I think, but though you feel it now, its easily lost. Hold onto it, for all its worth, as its worth a lot. A lot more then you would ever imagine... I know I sound old when I say that but they aren't my words, my memory is telling me them..."

"To me... to me it sounds as if we are two completely hopeless people right now," she paused. "As in... well right now, confusion seems to be pushing its way in... but it can't seem to fit in. Like my brain is too full to process it."

"Well, for two hopeless people, we seemed to have done something well," Sasuke said.

"What's that?" Tenten asked, though she was lost in her own thoughts.

"We have found a hotel," Sasuke told her.

"Amazing that losing yourself in yourself, manages to find you where you seek in another place," Tenten laughed airily. "If that makes sense..."

"To be honest, not much of what we have been saying has made much sense," he told her. "Why change the habit now?"

"I'm getting you," Tenten laughed. "But, do we have money?"

"Always come prepared," He pulled out a card from his front pocket.

"Glad someone does," Tenten smiled, as they walked up to the counter. She leant her elbows on it, and leant her head on her hands, while Sasuke ran the service bell on the desk.

"May I help you?" He appeared from the doorway behind the counter. He had short white blonde hair, with blue eyes. He was around five foot eight, and he looked young, younger then them. He was bulky, but it was all muscle.

"Have you got any free rooms?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes, but only the one. It has a double bed though," He replied.

"It will have to do," Sasuke sighed.

"Can I have either a payment now, or a card to put on the system, plus a name?" He asked.

"Sure," Sasuke handed over the card. "The name's Uchiha, Sasuke."

The boy nodded, and began typing things into the computer before him. Pressing the enter button, he stood.

"Right this way please," He told them, stepping out from the desk and walked up the stairs. They followed behind silently. They stepped onto the first floor, and walked two doors down. "This is your room, and this is the key." He unlocked the door, and handed the key to Sasuke, before walking away without a word.

They shrugged, and Tenten walked through the door, Sasuke behind her, shutting the door behind them. The lock clicked.

The room was plain and beige. It had a double bed in the centre, with a small T.V in the far corner. On either side of the bed was a bedside table, one with a phone on and one with a lamp. Against the wall at the end of the bed was a small table with a kettle and a few tea bags and some coffee sachets. There was a door to the left of the bed, leading to a toilet.

Tenten walked over to the bed, and threw herself back.

"Turn the light off," Tenten told Sasuke, flipping on the bedside light. She kicked of her shoes, as the lights flicked off, and crawled to the top of the bed, slipping under the quilt.

She felt Sasuke sit on the bed, before getting under the quilt as well.

"You had best not be a fidget," He joked, as he tried to get comfy.

"Well, you're screwed if I am," she smirked.

"Indeed," he replied. They both sighed, and led there in bed, looking at the ceiling. A moment or two passed, but it felt like an hour.

"I don't feel like sleeping yet," She said, rolling over to face him.

"Me neither," He sighed, still looking at the ceiling.

"Do you ever think about times when things were different?" Tenten asked, curling herself into a ball.

"All the time," he replied. His mind was doing overtime. He knew that voice... but he needed time to work it out. But he knew one thing, Tenten's voice was helping.

"I wish I could..." Tenten sighed, wrapping her arms around her knees. "I remember bits, but I want to remember more. I want to know why I remember so little. It seems each day I remember a little bit more, but before a certain night its all foggy. I remember that one night so well, its so clear. Then its all foggy... till the deaths... but there is a chunk missing..."

"Mmm," Was all he could manage. Wait, that was it! It was Tenten's mum!

"It was horrific..." Tenten kept the sobs hidden. Her mood had changed so quickly, so easily. But the memories were flooding back, and she couldn't stop them. "We were late home one day... my phone had been vibrating like mad from the moment I left school, but I simply turned it off. I didn't want to know, I just wanted to have a bit of fun..." She swallowed a sob, making a noise like a hiccup. "It was around seven when we began to wonder back. I could see more then our car on the drive, but I assumed it was merely just friends. I was happy for them at that point, but as we neared, I could hear something... then I could see the car, it was packed... I remember freezing, and Hinata walking into me. It jolted me awake, and I ran, I darted down that road, across the dirve and into the house. All I could see in the passage was mess. The furniture was pulled onto the floor, the wall was streaked with blood. I swallowed. I ran into the next room, it was the same story. I could hear movement upstairs, and I ran, I cleared them stairs faster then I thought was possible. I threw the upstairs doors open, but one was already open. I stood in the door way horrified. I could hear the cars on the drive leave, and I walked slowly forward. Their breathing was rasping, and as I walked forwards, I saw their faces... their eyes closed, the faces contorted in pain. My father opened his eyes at that point, and looked at me. Run, was all he could manage. And that was all I needed. I screamed, I screamed in pain, and ran, for what I was worth..."

No one said anything.

"But then it goes blank. Next thing I know, I am in a room, Hinata looking over me... my head throbbing... I guess she saved me," Tenten finished, tear silently spilling over.

"At least you didn't see the deed," Sasuke said, not turning to face her.

"No, but I was a coward... such a damn coward. I should have helped, but I ran!" She fumed. "Its all I am good at! Its all I ever do!"

"In some cases running is not a cowards deed, but a move of bravery. Sometimes it takes more bravery to run, then it does to stand and fight. In some cases standing and fighting is just stupid," Sasuke said. "It takes wisdom to know when to do what."

"But that wasn't the end of it... Things got worse... I did some stupid things, I put Hinata through so much, that in the end, I lost who I was. It took something that was stupid beyond stupidity to shake me out of it," Tenten said. "Not only did Hinata lose the only adults to ever love her, but she then also lost the one person who was left that loved her. She lost that person to no fault of her own, but due to the persons own selfish grief. I put Hinata through hell and back. I was an awful person after the death..."

They were silent for a while afterwards. Tenten lost in guilt. Sasuke unsure what to do.

"Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you didn't do certain things?" She asked.

"All the time. Who doesn't?" He replied. "Look, I know your parents died, and I now know they were murdered. But why? And you still haven't told me why you are running!"

"As... I'm not ready to," Tenten sighed. "At the same time, I know little about what has happened to you!"

"You have never asked!" Sasuke fumed.

"And?"

"I don't get why you can't tell me, or why you won't tell me!" He turned to face her, his expression softer. "How can we help you otherwise?"

"We don't need help..." Tenten whispered. "Not with that... and plus its not my place to say. I am in it as I chose to be, and was asked for help. It is Hinata's choice to be running, and I support her. I lead her and help her... if I tell you, I won't tell you one by one, Hinata will tell you all together."

"But then, why are your family involved?" He asked. Tenten didn't reply for a while, so he tilted her head towards him, and looked her in the eye.

"As we were the only ones who could help her," Tenten said. "We knew what we were risking from day one, but it was my parents choice, and they died trying to help. I don't want to let their sacrifice go to waste, so I am carrying on what that started. Well they didn't start it, Hinata did, something she blames herself for every day. But it wasn't her fault they died, but mine. I was the one that ignored their calls. And I guess that grief was what made me do what I did..."

She lowered her eyes, and he kissed her lightly on the forehead.

"Never, ever blame yourself. It can never end well," Sasuke told her gently.

"I know that now," She sighed. "I just had to learn it the hard way."

Like always, she silently added in her mind.