Naruto gripped the Kunai tighter. "What the hell are you talking about? We haven't killed anyone!"

"Liar" he said flipping the tanto in his grip holding it at a backhand style.

"Only a shinobi could have killed Doro. And to think he actually suspected Zabuza to be powerful enough to seek vengeance from the grave."

Naruto chuckled. "Hate to disappoint you but I haven't the slightest clue what you're rambling on about. Whoever is responsible for that guy over there couldn't be from our village."

The man lunged forward into a charge.

"Enough lies you're going to die."

Naruto stepped forward ready to charge the man when Hinata grabbed his jacket pulling him back. "No Naruto it's a trap." A thin flash of silver caught his eye as the man slashed at him with the tanto. The blade broke in two before it could make contact. Naruto starred as the man stood looming over him immobile. Small red lines covered his skin and small rivers of blood flowed down his body. Small thin steel wires wrapped around his body tying the victim down.

Small metal spiders moved cross his body trailing the thin razor wires behind them.

"Over there." Hinata pointed to the trees behind them. Drawing his gaze away from there attacker.

A grey hooded figure jumped down from the trees; brass tinted goggles covered his eyes and a steel and wood scorpion clung to his back its legs. Worn headbands were tired to each shoulder and the scorpions curled tail clutched a curved Dao in a leather scabbard.

"It took you long enough to spot my wires." He said looking at Hinata steel wires trailing from his fingerless gloves, small spools of wire of wire were attached to his gloves over his knuckles. "Let me guess you didn't even see them until I ran my chakra through them did you? And I thought a Hyūga's would know how to use their Byakugan."

Naruto gritted his teeth. "Who the hell are you?"

"Kumo Sabaku" answered the restrained man barely managing to breathe through the steel restraints. He cried out in pain as the wires tightened around him constricting him, squeezing the breath from his body.

"Quiet Jiro" the man hissed holding his fist up lightly pulling on the wires. "I'll deal with you later. After all I have plenty of questions about your so called 'friends.'"

Kumo turned his attention back to the two Leaf Shinobi. "Leave the Land of Waves… my work here has nothing to do with you two or your companions. I do not wish to build hostilities with the Hidden Leaf village."

"Oh yeah and who are you to tell us to get lost?!" growled Naruto keeping a steady grip on his kunai, "After all from the look of things you're the son of a bitch we've been sent here to find."

"If you're concerned over these recent deaths I assure you every corpse belonged to persons of ill repute. If anything I'm doing the people of the Land of Waves a favor."

"What are talking about?" asked Hinata pulling her own kunai from her pouch, "This country's people are terrified of you and what you've been doing. It's why they hired the Leaf Village to find you."

"If these people had half a spine they would have run scum like that man behind you out of the country four years ago when Gatō died. You see this piece of shit Jiro behind you he's a former comrade of mine, a rouge shinobi from the Hidden Mist Village."

"If this man was your comrade why are you doing this to him? Why betray him?"

Kumo smiled, "He and his comrades betrayed me… they betrayed my master to sate their petty greed. Zabuza ordered us to destroy Gatō's company and criminal empire if he died. We were to finish his work and take the Mist Village like he planned. But these bastards decided to become petty and pick up Gatō's scraps. And along the way they murdered and betrayed anyone who didn't follow their crooked path."

"If what you're saying is true" said Naruto, "Then I'm obligated to take you down."

"I see… that's most unfortunate."

Hinata sprung forward as Kumo's other hand jerked up pulling the wires with his chakra. "Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms" she said her hands moving in a blur blue waves of chakra shined as her hands moved to stop the steel razor threads.

Kumo watched as her fingers connected with the wires splitting them in two and stopping them in their deadly path. Her hands moved in every arc perfectly blocking them from every angle.

Kumo smirked and moved his hands into their appropriate signs.

"Water Clone Jutsu."

Water came from the muddy ground and formed into a clone of himself, both clones reached back and drew the sword from the sheath, the scorpion's tail uncurled and the Dao sword separated into twin blades he carried in each hand. They both charged in the clone attacking Naruto while the original rushed Hinata the swords spun in their hands. Hinata and Naruto dodged the blades moving across the forest clearing keeping away and trying to find and angle to counterattack.

"Naruto" said Hinata ducking a sword thrust almost being knocked off balance as the wooden scorpion's tail whipped around the man's body almost impaling her on its sharpened tip.

"Don't leave this clearing Naruto... he's laid his wires all over the area around this I can't handle all of them."

Naruto nodded dodging another sword thrust before throwing the kunai into him. The knife sunk deep into the clones shoulder but didn't destroy the water clone. Making his hands signs Naruto activated his shadow clone summoning three of them to the battle, the clones rushed over to help Hinata. Kumo dodged and retreated from the clones, whipping the puppet scorpion tail around a crossbow unfolded and fired hitting each clone with perfect accuracy. Both Kumo and his clone jumped back, Naruto and Hinata moved to each other's side ready to defend their partner.

They watched as the scorpion on Kumo's back stabbed its legs into his chest and pulled open his chest ripping the ribcage apart. A hailstorm of chakram and kunai flew from both hallow chests towards them. They jumped and rolled to dodge, but Hinata moved too slowly one of the chakram was in her path and she readied herself to take the blow but it never came. She watched as the metal blade ring passed right through her body.

"Naruto it isn't real it's just a genjutsu." But as she said it she saw that it wasn't true for the so called water clone rushed Naruto hearing her words he charged forward kunai in hand only to receive one of the swords slash across his belly cutting it open.

"NARUTO!" she cried rushing over and delivering a punch to Kumo's face knocking him back before he could do more damage to Naruto. The genjutsu broke and while the other Kumo disappeared the other's face and features turned wooden. Hinata's eyes widened she had kept her Byakugan on keeping a lookout for steel threads and chakra strings. But as the puppet moved she saw it and cursed herself, the chakra strings where attacked to the puppets feet and being fed to it through the ground. She focused her Byakugan and saw the chakra run through the ground and into the woods.

She followed the strings with her eyes until she found him almost a full mile away perched in a tree; he controlled the puppet with one hand while the other held a smoking pipe. He smirked at her and Hinata could tell he knew she was looking at him. She focused more to get a better look at his face when she saw it behind his goggles his eyes were silver and framed with protruding veins.

"A Byakugan!?" she gasped. "Impossible."

"What are you talking about Hinata?" asked Naruto clutching his belly trying to keep anything from spilling out.

"This man… Kumo… he has a Byakugan."

The puppet sighed, "I guess the cats out of the bag now." It said voice sounding perfectly normal. "I was hoping to make you leave the country and avoid this… you can't be trusted so now it seems you both have to die."

"Who are you?" Asked Hinata taking a defensive stance in front of Naruto.

The Puppet frowned and although its face was made of wood and metal it truly looked solemn. "I'm sorry but your clan can never know my secret… I'm your half-brother.