Shikamaru quickly raced back to the village in search of Naruto. As soon as he saw him he quickly grabbed a hold of him and went back to the tavern. "What the? Hey! What's the big idea Shikamaru? And where's Hinata?" Naruto complained as he was thrown his stuff. "We're heading back to the leaf village asap" Shikamaru said in a quick yet serious tone. "What? why?" Naruto said as he stopped packing and looked to Shikamaru. "Hinata has been kidnapped" Shikamaru said as he gritted his teeth with the memory of what happened flashed through his mind. "She was kidnapped?" Naruto practically yelled as he looked to the window and back at Shikamaru. "How?" Naruto said a bit angry now, "it was a surprise attack, the Akatsuki members had made and successfully got what they wanted...a hostage" Shikamaru said as he looked to the floor, worry and dread were written all over his face as he slowly closed his knapsack and flung it on his back. Naruto glared "Why those dirty sons of a- " "Naruto! Save it for later!" Shikamaru said as he cut him off and opened the door. "Come on we don't have much time" he said as he closed the door. Naruto quickly grabbed his stuff together cursing under his breath, and went out the door as well. The two were on a non-stop trip to the leaf village to inform Tsunade of what happened.
Hinata slowly looked around, nervous as can be and looked to forest floor. There was nothing but silence and the sounds of footsteps as the Akatsuki members slowly reached their destination. They both stopped in the trees to see a slightly big cave not too far from them. Kisame nodded and went out to scout the area in case of any ninja's nearby. Itachi waited till Kisame was out of sight to lift Hinata off his shoulder and had put her in front of him. Itachi stared at her and slowly brought a hand up to her face. She flinched at first but only to see he was removing some hair from her face. She looked back up at him questionably. "Do you remember what happened the other day?" Itachi finally said as he slightly smirked at Hinata. Hinata blushed and nodded, "you will find out in due time little one" Itachi said as he looked to see Kisame coming back. He lifted Hinata again onto his shoulder and looked back towards Kisame. Kisame had nodded and they both went towards the cave.
It was dark by the time Shikamaru and Naruto returned to the leaf village. They we're both out of breath and they both looked at each other. They nodded and headed straight towards the Hokage's tower. Shizune, Tsunade's assistant had busted through Tsunade's office with the bad news she had just heard. Tsunade's face grew cold as she looked down to her desk to see the two pictures of the Akatsuki members. Tsunade looked back to Shizune "get me ANBU now!" Tsunade said as she punched threw her desk with anger in her face. "While you're at it bring me Shikamaru and Naruto!" She said as she cracked her knuckles.
Kisame had just started a fire and went off to find something for them to eat. Hinata was now tied up and wasn't too far from Itachi. She knew that she couldn't escape since her life was in was on the line. She looked back to Itachi; he was staring at the fire. It had seemed as though the light from the fire was dancing all around them when Hinata finally broke the silence. "Why did you kiss me?" she said with a blush slowly creeping up her face. Itachi simply looked at her and looked back to the fire. "Because I wanted to" He said as he closed his eyes. Hinata's face was beat red at his response and she looked at him. 'Does this mean he likes me?' she thought as she glanced back at him and glanced back at the fire. Thoughts whizzed though her mind. Itachi simply looked at the love confused girl. "You want me to kiss you again?" he said with a bit of a smirk as he slowly moved closer to her. She quickly looked back at him; her eyes were now wide open. "W-Wha?" she said as she began to move back a bit. Itachi simply laughed a bit at her and went back to staring at the fire. 'Does this mean he's not going to kiss me?' she thought, a bit disappointed. 'Wait why I should care, just because of that one kiss I'm acting this way! I'm not in love...I can't be in love...am I?' she thought, now even more confused. She hadn't even noticed Itachi was sitting right next to her now. He slowly brought a hand up to her face and turned it towards him. Surprised she looked up at him with confusing thoughts running through her head as their faces were slowly coming closer. She could feel his hot breath, as their lips were almost touching. "Hey Itachi I brought back some fish!" Kisame said with a huge smirk on his face, at that moment Itachi quickly moved away from Hinata acting as though nothing happened. Hinata slowly looked back at Kisame and then Itachi, 'wha...what in the world?' she said as reality started to set in for her.
"Please tell me what in the hell just happened!" Tsunade yelled as she looked at the two ninja's in front of her. "This was a strict S mission from the start you two had just gone and screwed it up!" She was even more infuriated now as she punched a hole through the wall next to her."What in the world am I even going to tell her father! What that the heir to the Hyuuga clan as just been taken away because of two numb skulls blowing their cover!" Tsunade said as she glared back at them. Shikamaru simply looked down, he cringed "Look Tsunade! Naruto had nothing to do with this it was my fault!" Shikamaru had stated as he looked at Tsunade. She simply looked at him a glared even more. "Great, just fucking great, this has to be one of the worst possible situation's this village has faced!" said Tsunade who had just threw a broken part of her desk out the window. At that moment Shizune had walked in with a bow. "This had better be good Shizune, because if not, I'm going to throw you so far out that window you'll make it to the sand village!" Tsunade had yelled while point at the nearby window. "ANBU are here now my lady" Shizune said in a calm voice and moved to the side to allow 10 ANBU members in. "Good, now I want you all to find the location of Akatsuki members Itachi and Kisame and retrieve Hinata Hyuuga, I will give you 3 days to find her!" Tsunade said she waved them off. Shikamaru and Naruto had a deep gut feeling saying that isn't the worst that's going to happen to them.