"Wait, look," He lifted up a strand of hair from the tree branch where they were standing. "I'm going to get this DNA, you go ahead and get them," She nodded and jumped off the tree and headed toward the village.
"Genma, Raidou! Tsunade-sama has a mission for us. You don't need anything, just follow me." Genma looked at her like she grew three heads before standing, switching his senbon to the left side of his mouth.
"Alright, this better be good though, I'm on my watch right now. Come on Raidou, let's follow the boss before she gets her panties in a wad." His partner chuckled and nodded to the now glaring Hyuga.
"Genma, stop talking to your captain like that,"
"Whatever, lets just go." Hinata nodded and took off to team seven training grounds, where her other team member should be. "Sai!" She and Genma and Raidou stood on the other side of the field. He turned his head toward them and said bye to Sakura and Naruto after picking him up they left and headed toward Karin's post and collected her, Hinata told them what was going on.
"I think I have a feeling about who this is, and Im sure Kakashi's goin' to get furious." Genma spoke, swishing the senbon in his mouth. Raidou agreed, apparently whoever this was, they knew Kakashi very well.
"Alright let's head out," Hinata spoke and they ran back to the memorial where she heard and saw this person. "Turn on your headsets, and I'll head over to where I saw him disappear. Karin you come with me just in case. I want you three to wait for Kakashi here. He went to take the strand of hair he found in to find this person's DNA."
''Hai, Hinata-chan," Karin pushed her glasses further up her nose and obeyed, following Hinata.
With Obito
He jumped off the last tree branch and used kamui, teleporting him back to Madara's hideout in the Mountains Graveyard. He made his way through the hideout angrily, Madara knew he was there, and he knew exactly why he was there. He also knew that the last face he'd get the chance to see was the boy whose life he ruined.
"A life for a life. That's how the old saying goes, right Obito?" he asked himself quietly just as the 29 year old entered the room and wrapped his hand around the man's throat and clenched tightly.
"What did you do to Rin?" He growled loudly knowing what the man did, but he desperately wanted to hear it come from the killer himself.
"I killed her," He said with his usual pokerface in a monotone voice.
"Why the hell would you do that?" he gripped tighter. The older man gasped for air.
"How else...? You... wouldn't have come back if I hadn't."
"You're right and you know what?" He squeezed the neck in his fist tighter and lifted him from his stone seat, pulling him from the gedo-masho chakra cords in the process. "Someone needs to put you in your place and its sad to know that the one to do it is your very own apprentice. Now burn in hell, bitch." He whispered darkly in the man's ear. The older Uchiha gasped for air but had no luck. Obito knew fully well that the man did not have enough chakra to save himself after he was ripped from the gedo-masho statue.
He gripped the throat tighter, making blood pour down the pale mans chin. Obito pulled the orange mask from his face and dropped it on the stone ground. It made a clattering sound. Pulling a kunai from his pouch, he held it to the man's chest, where his heart should've been that is if he had one, and dug it deep inside his chest. Blood poured everywhere. The young Uchiha grinned sadistically, wanting to paint the room with the crimson liquid badly. "Hopefully they'll let me get my life back." He spoke to the lifeless body before he slashed the kunai through his neck, the old mans headless body hit the floor with a thump. He used kamui to get back to where he was before, holding the ancient Uchiha's head by his thick white strands.
With Hinata and Karin
The navy-haired Hyuga pressed the button on the black collar around her neck. "Hey, is Kakashi there yet?" She asked through the device.
"Yeah, I'm here. That strand of hair was Hashirama's DNA mixed with Obito's."
"That's rather strange, well, Karin and I are about a few kilometers straight ahead from where I left Genma, Sai and Raidou,"
"Alright, we'll be there in a few minutes, hang tight."
"Kakashi, please hurry though. I have a feeling something is going to happen," Hinata pleaded into the headset, she wasn't lying, everything seemed weird at the moment. Karin looked around and nodded
"She's right. It does seem like something is going to happen."
"Don't worry, we're already on our way, just keep your guard up."
"Hai," Both girls answered. Karin jumped behind her partner and faced the opposite direction. "I've got your back Hina-chan." Karin smiled to herself, she and her navy-haired team captain were best friends, as Sakura took Naruto from her friend they got along easily for their hate for the pinkette as well as their blonde friend Ino. The sky was slowly getting darker within a few minutes of waiting for something to happen, as soon as they knew it, rain started dripping from black clouds above them, their clothes began clinging to their body as well as their long hair.
"Hinata, we're almost there, are you and Karin alright?" The headset informed the two of Kakashi's voice.
"Yeah we're alright, it just seems like... I don't know exa-" She cut herself off when a vortex like structure formed ahead of herself and the redhead.
"Hinata!" Kakashi's voice was heard over the static waves. She slowly lifted her wrist and pressed the small button on the collar.
"Kakashi, you know how I hate being right, right?" She said in a low whisper. He'd know what she meant as well as her other group members.
"On my way,"
Karin stepped back and faced the enemy along with the bluette. The left side of his face was heavily scarred and his eyes were mismatched, one being onyx black and the other being the most powerful of the three main kekkai genkai, the second most powerful being the byakugan itself. His mouth was set it a sad smile and before the kunoichi knew it, he was falling unconscious. She and her partner jumped beside his body that was laid out on the tree branch. Hinata lifted his wrist and checked for a pulse, thankfully there was one, and it was pretty normal too. She flipped his body over and laid his head in her lap and activated her bloodline limit, his chakra was almost all gone out of his body.
"His jutsu must have been a chakra drainer if he went unconscious like that all of a sudden." Karin paused and her face went into a disturbed shock "And look at what's in his hand!" She shrieked.
Hinata looked at it and back at the man in her lap. "Do you know who's head that is?" Hinata asked rubbing the dark-blue strands from his tired face. "Madara Uchiha,"
"Kakashi, over here!" Karin yelled to the silver haired jounin and the other three following close behind. She pulled the white hair from the unconscious man's hand and lifted it for them to see.
"Thats beautiful, where'd you get tha' head..?" Raidou chuckled after his very sarcastic statement.
"It was in this guys hand, he came in some kind of vortex with it in his hand, then he fainted from exhaustion." The redhead laid her arm at her side as they approached.
"Kakashi, you know who this is? Dont you?" Hinata questioned looking up at his expression. From what she could see, he was angry, nervous, excited, and something else she couldn't place her finger on quite yet.
"Yes, we need to bring him back to the village. Tsunade needs to know about this," She nodded and stood up, pulling him over her back.
"I'll carry him." Kakashi ordered. She sighed in relief. She was getting tired anyway and most likely wouldn't be able to carry a grown man at the moment. Kakashi manuvered him onto his back and they all began running back toward the village in the pouring rain with no complaints.
The rain began to pour on the seven ninja who were entering the village, Karin was sneezing and Genma's nose was running and his face was begining to pale, they were all soaked more than they pegged for and were now suffering the consequences. "Kotetsu! Hurry up and open the damn gate!" Genma ordered sniffling.
"Alright, alright!" He yelled back in an annoyed voice, his best friend got to sleep on the job, but no, he couldn't! Once the massive gates were opened, the group shedded its members down to three. Hinata, Kakashi, and Obito, who was over Kakashi's back still very unconscious. The cold droplets had rendered the streets empty a while ago, with only pockets of light under street posts as they walked. Their plan was to see Tsunade about Obito and afterward they would let the Hyuga heir heal him and rid him of his upcoming cold. It took the two about ten minutes to get to the middle of the village and up to Tsunade's office door, where she was most likely drowning herself in sake and bugging Shizune for more as she ran out. Hinata wrung her long hair out letting the droplets fall to the floor, she didn't want to show up a mess, but what was the use when they were already soaked? They both braced themselves for Tsunade's angry mood, which was never good for anyone when she was drunk.
"Come in!" Hinata stepped forward and opened the door nervously, stepping in.
"Hokage-sama, we found the one we saw earlier. Our mission was completed."
"Good, I was starting to get annoyed with having to wait forever, but that was expected of Kakashi. Who is this?" She asked the silver haired male as he stepped in with his old partner on his back.
"Uchiha Obito." He replied. She grinned and stood from her seat and walked over to the jounin.
"Obito? He died though." Shizune reacted quickly and hustled over to the trio.
"He really was alive huh?" She shook her head with her eyes closed. "I knew that kid wouldn't die that easily. Take him to your apartment, Kakashi. Hinata will get rid of his cold, I'm worn out right now, training Sakura isn't easy when she's on that time of the month." She chuckled and opened her eyes
"Bring him here tomorrow morning, we'll get information from him then. He isn't useful when he's out hard like this."
"Hai, Tsunade-sama." They both replied nodding. Kakashi pulled Obito's arms and positioned him to a more comfortable spot on his back. He stopped moving the dark headed male at the Hokage's next words
"I want Hina-san to stay with you and retard here for tonight. She knows how to handle sick people unlike you, Kakashi." She ordered sternly watching the copy-cat nin closely, the corners of her mouth curled upward grinning "And no buts. And Kakashi, be a gentlemen." She walked over to her desk and picked up her bottle of sake and took a long drag, still grinning.
Shizune looked at her like she was nuts, but quickly came out of her shock "Tsunade-sama," She walked over and plucked the bottle from her death grip, making the sanin glare straight at her "you're drunk, don't go assigning ridiculous missions or whatever you consider these sick charades." She glanced at the wide-eyed-red-faced Hyuga with sympathy in her eyes. "Kakashi's the biggest closet pervert here now that Jiraiya is gone and you want a young woman staying at his apartment?" She hissed bravely up at the taller blonde. "And you know Obito, he's not much better Kakashi,"
"Hey, I don't think you can compare me to Jiraiya. That's quite harsh. And why would I touch the Hyuga heiress if she doesn't want me to?" Hinata was sure by then she had created a completely new shade of red for the rainbow of colors her face could go through after making an 'eep!' sound.
"Alright, you three should leave now, it's going to be a long night trying to get Tsunade back home… And Kakashi!" She glared at him "Do. Not. Try. Anything! I'll ask Hina-san tomorrow to be sure." She sweatdropped as a loud thump hit the ground somewhere behind her. Kakashi chuckled and turned toward the door and opened it, motioning Hinata to follow. Hinata lifted the bag that was gripped in her left palm toward Shizune, who scurried over and accepted it.
"Ano Shizune-san, well… what's in that bag might scare you a bit, but its the head that has caused mostly all of the Leaf's troubles... Madara Uchiha is dead." Hinata bowed politely "Obito-kun had it when he collapsed. I can only guess he killed him right before using his teleportation jutsu," Another thump came from behind Shizune as Tsunade fell over when trying to 'run' over to them. Shizune stood in shock, eyes wide and narrowed at the black bag in her hand, looking as if she'd fall over as well. It just didn't process very quickly to the brunette that there was now going to be peace for the leaf, and they re-gained another Uchiha, along with Sasuke, who was currently trying to prove his loyalty back to his home village. Shizune came out of her shock and looked back at the bluette who was looking at her with concern in her eyes, why she was so kind to everyone... only Hashirama could possibly figure that one out. The shorthaired woman chuckled at her own joke, making the Hyuga look at her with more concern.
"It's alright Hyuga-san. Go with Kakashi now. I need to get Tsunade up. Kakashi will take you to his apartment, excuse his mess, which he most likely will have. And heal Obito, and," She paused and gazed behind the Hyuga to the silver-haired jounin who was somehow holding the Uchiha on his back whilst reading one of Jiraiya's old novels. Hinata followed her gaze, which was set on Kakashi. She giggled and Shizune amusingly smirked "and could you do me a favor?"
"Hai, what is it Shizune-san?"
"Could you help with Obito's rehabilitation, it's going to be hard for him, really hard, especially if he's grown up with Madara. And the villagers aren't going to like seeing his face as well as the elders. I guess I'm just asking if you do the favor of defending him, Obito, when he was a kid, he was always shunned and put-down easily, and if he's still that same 13-year old boy, I'm afraid that he won't handle this easily," Hinata listened intently, feeling bad, very bad. She knew how this man felt, and if he's anything like Naruto "Will you do it for me, I'm sure Kakashi already had it in mind," Shizune asked pulling the Heiress from her depressing thoughts thankfully. Hinata nodded and smiled.
"I'll keep him company, if thats what you're asking,"
"Thanks Hina-chan, I'll talk to Tsunade-sama about postponing your future missions for this specific one. Alright go ahead, we'll figure this all out another day, for now just help out with Obito," Hinata nodded and did a respectful bow before exiting the door with the copycat jounin. They walked awkwardly down the steps and out the door in silence, getting pelted by rain once more, Kakashi glanced over at the Hyuga who was looking at the dark clouds above them looking like the angel she was, he chuckled to himself, this girl was going to have the Uchiha that was currently over his back wrapped around her slender finger by the time he wakes up. He stuffed his book in his pocket once they got to his apartment complex's lobby, he'd rather jump to his room, but having two other people with him, it would look strange trying to cram themselves through a window. Once they were in the one bedroom apartment, Kakashi left Obito with Hinata to get towels to dry off with, giving Hinata the chance to study the mysterious man's features without people watching.
She studied his face intently, she knew people were going to judge his scarring and mismatched eyes. But all together, she found the man to be very attractive, she'd seen a lot worse and a lot scarier before, his flaws just made him look all the manlier. (A.U Is that a word, if it isnt, it should be XD). His clothes were soaked and clung to his skin, outlining all of his lean, toned muscles. She blushed when she noticed she was in fact checking this man out and shook her head of the perverted thouhts evading her so called 'innocent' mind as Kiba used to call it, she frowned as her teamates came to mind, she missed them both dearly, where was Akamaru..? She was pulled out of her thoughts by her current partners voice.
"Hinata, would you like to sleep in my room? I'll sleep out here with Obito, if that sounds more comfortable." He asked handing her one of his larger sleeping shirts and a towel. She blushed and nodded taking the clothes from his hands.
"Thanks Kakashi-san, sounds good."
"No problem you can go ahead and change in my room as well or take a shower, which ever you want. I'll make miso for tonight," "I-I'll take a shower then, but umm," she looked at the unconsious man slouched on the couch.
"I'll get him changed so you can heal him." He assured her, she nodded and walked around him to the bathroom. He stopped her by quickly putting a palm on her shoulder. "And Hinata, thank you," He spoke softly smiling sweetly at the Hyuga, who returned the gesture with her own real smile.
"No problem Kakashi-kun," she squeezed the hand on her shoulder still smiling. "And thank you too, you have helped me coap with my teamates deaths better than anyone else couldv'e." They soon parted and Hinata headed for the bathroom. Once she was on the cold tile floor and the bathroom door was locked, she began undressing and stepped under the hot water letting it dance down her pale skin, spending the time to figure out a healing prosess for a way to rid Kakashi of his headaches and possibly Obito. After lathering her hair with her lavender shampoo, which she thankfully accedently put in her supplise bag, rinsed her long blue hair hair of the suds and stepped out, wrapping the fluffy white towel around her chest and dried off quickly, hearing her belly make a gurgling sound, she realized she hadn't eaten all day, she had been losing weight these past few weeks, with not eating much, she didn't see much point in it when her real family, Kiba and Shino, were in the ground lifeless. Why they had saved her, she'd never know, Shino and Kiba were both killed at the same time, Kiba got a kunai through the head and shino was punctured in the heart by a shuriken. Both were coated in poison. She cried herself to sleep every night, wondering why she couldn't have saved them. She looked at the mirror and pledged to herself that she'd become stronger, and would surpass the hokage on medical nin-jutsu. Become the most powerful kunoichi in Konoha. She smiled and closed her eyes. "Kiba, Shino-kun, I vow to surpass the hokage herself on medical nin-jutsu to be sure no more of my comrades dies like I let you." She smiled and bowed politely turning the knob of the shower to 'off' and pulled her hair into a lose bun off of her neck, she never liked having long hair when it was wet. After pulling the clothes on, and sadly a pair of Kakashi's dark blue boxers, she turned off the light and unlocked the door, stepping out. She sighed feeling very refreshed, a hot shower was what she had needed and she was glad she got one. She lightly padded her feet down the hallway but stopped dead in her tracks.
"Kakashi, you got anything for my eyes?!" Her breathing hitched at his voice, it was strange, deep yet light, childish and dark. Hm. She wondered for a moment untill Kakashi replied.
"Hinata will be here in there in a second to help you. I'm making food baka," She giggled, they acted truly like team seven, and in some cases like Kiba and Shino. Shino being Kakashi and Kiba being Obito, she covered her mouth with her hand hearing someone chuckle. It wasn't Kakashi. She blushed and slowly creeped into the room where a grinning mis-matched man was waiting for her to heal him, she wanted to surpass the Hokage, so this is what she'd start with. Healing someone who was going to make her question why she bothered if she was going to pass out herself, and it'd be eather on him or the floor and both were just as embarassing as the other, so she'd make sure that it the world was going to black out, she'd have her backup plan; The floor, it'd be much more comfortable.
"I'll be in there in a second Hinata, he won't try anything." Kakashi's voice was loud as he chuckled. She heard him say quietly "Not like me." Her face went a shade darker. She stepped into his view and he looked her up and down with a small smiled. "Yo." he said cooly. She giggled and quickly covered her mouth embarassed. That's where Kakashi picked up on that. She looked back at him and smiled.
She wanted to try it, it sounded fun. "Yo." She replied back lightly , his smile split into a full blown grin, making her giggle more closing her moonstone eyes. Once she regained her composure she looked at him with a small smile on her face. "Obito-kun, may I look at your eyes, you were complaining a few minutes ago, I could check out the nerve endings in your eye sockets to see if they are split, I may be able to re-attach them." He smiled and nodded. "I could do the same for Kakashi.. Do you have headaches..? If so how frequently?"
"I have around 2-3 headaches a day. Would my eyes be the cause of it?" He asked quite astounded that she knew so much just by looking at him.
"Yes, the nerves that were cut when you..." She trailed off trying to find a better way of saying her sentence "Gave Kakashi your..gift, the nerve endings couldn't grow back together because it wasn't a natural prosess. There are hundreds of nerves behind your eyes, and each one connects to the brain, and if a few of those nerves didn't go to the brain, it causes headaches and migrains to form." She sucked in a breath of air in letting him take in all of her information.
"Wait, if you knew all of this why didn't you help Kakashi yet..?" He asked raising a navy-blue brow.
"I just came up with it in the shower.. I was trying to figure out how to find a way to reattach the cut nerves without blinding you or Kakashi. I figured you would have headaches since..." She trailed off but looked up when she felt a hand on her shoulder, he smiled at her. "Its fine," She smiled weakly at him in defeat. "So have you figured out how?"
"Yes. I will have to use my Hyuga chakra instead of the regualar chakra..Every forty years or so, a child in the Hyuga clan is born with a more subtle chakra than everyone else in the clan, and I got it this time," She lifted her hand with her palm facing upward and emitted a lavender colored chakra. "It is very powerful, for both healing and battling. Though I perfer to use it for healing because its more useful than regular healing chakra." She closed her eyes and began to control it with her regular chakra, giving it a definate shape as a humming bird.
"Wow, who taught you chakra control?" He smiled as she let the bird fly off her palm and over to and land on the males shoulder. She was about to answer but the silver-haired jounin walked in and interupted her.
"No one, she learns her abilities on her own." She and the Uchiha turned as Kakashi brought the food in and set it on the table. "Lets eat so Hinata-san can heal." After Hinata was finished she stood up and grabbed Obito's plate and chopsticks and walked toward the kitchen and washed them off, puting them back in the cupbord. She walked in the living area and looked at the two men who just stopped conversing.
"Which one first?"
"Obito can, I want to watch first," Kakashi spoke up getting off the couch, ushering Hinata to sit where he was. She obeyed and sat, facing him indian style, trying to find a way to position him so it wouldn't get awkward.
"Ano.. this might be awkward but i'll but I need you to sit over here." She looked at the floor beside her. "And lean your head back, that way I can see the nerve endings better." He nodded and stood from his spot and walked over to the side of the couch and sat indian style while she repositioned herself as well. He leaned his head back in her lap, making her blush and him grin from the close distance. Kakashi rolled his eyes and leaned back on the recliner he just plopped his butt down in.
"Hinata, Hana wanted me to tell you that she wants to see you, its about Akamaru. He's not doing so well." He sighed and closed his eyes.
"Byakugan," She spoke softly and examined his eyes with her bloodline trait. "I'm going to see him tomorrow, you both can come if you like." She noticed Obito's confused facial expression and smiled sadly. "He was Kiba-kun's nin-dog. He was an Inuzuka. Hana will be angry with me though."
"You got that right. She was pissed that you've been avoiding their whole clan like the plauge. Why have you been doing that..?" "It hasn't felt right." She paused and deactivated her byakugan looking at Obito's eyes again.
"I mean since I was too oblivious to notice his feelings for me before he was killed, I guess I just don't want to be reminded of it." She sighed and focused her chakra to her palms more erratically. She closed her eyes and a bead of sweat dripped from her forehead, she was already getting tired. "I was too focused on that damn Naruto!" She growled and activated her bloodline limit, checking the nerves. Which were thankfully starting to mend together with the help of her chakra, into his brain. "Thats why I promised them both that i'd surpass even the Hokage on medical nin-jutsu, I'm not letting anymore of my comrades die!" She growled darkly, making Kakashi go visibly paler, on the other hand, his childhood teamate found it rather attractive. She spent about another 20 minutes before the nerves finnaly attached themselves to the Uchiha's brain. "Theres another good thing to this prosess as well, you will be able to open and close either eye as you please,"
"Thanks Hinata, your already living up to your goal in my opinion. Your temates would be proud." He smiled down at the smaller frame, which he towered over.