A group of Konoha ninja and one Suna elder ran thru the desert of Land of Wind. They weren't that far from reaching the edge of the desert. Kakashi had summoned eight dogs including Pakkun and ordered them to go on ahead and check the area surrounding wherever their noses led them. They were faster than the humans so they could reach their destination sooner and look for traps.

In no time they had reached the border between Land of Wind and Land of Rivers, which was a hilled area covered lightly in forest in contrast to the flat desert they came from. The temperature was somewhat cooler, but still on the hot end of the spectrum. With plenty of trees in the area again the ninja began their preferred method of traveling, jumping thru the trees.

Despite her irritation at Hinata, Sakura could not avoid asking Naruto a question. "Hey Naruto, can I ask you something?" He looked at her, his expression curious and permitting. "When exactly did this group Akatsuki start targeting you and the others?"

Naruto looked forward to see where he was going. "I don't know."

Kakashi responded for him. "It's hard to say when exactly the Akatsuki began their mission to acquire jinchuuriki. The first signs we know for sure were when two members tried to take Naruto about three years ago when he was on his way to bring Tsunade-sama back to the village. After that, it appeared like they disappeared and are just now making their reappearance."

"Three years? Why did they wait so long? And what did they do in the meantime?" Sakura asked in complete seriousness.

"I can't say, but I suspect they delayed because they could not act, rather than they chose not to act." The one-eyed jounin answered.

"I think that is true, but it may not be as simple as that." Chiyo added. "I hear that to separate a bijuu from it's host is a great deal of effort. Maybe even harder to do than it is to seal it away in the first place.

"Wait, you said 'A bijuu', so there's more than one creature like the kyuubi?" Sakura asked.

"You have to ask?" The old woman from Suna asked back.

"Konoha classified all information regarding the kyuubi and it's kind as need-to-know." Kakashi told her.

"Ah, I see." Chiyo commented. "Well, to fill you in, there are nine bijuu in all, each having a different number of tails, from one to nine. The ichibi is the one our village has always been familiar with while the kyuubi is the same for your own. The others are connected to the other villages and used in similar ways."

"And they are not all foxes?" Sakura clarified.

"No. They take on many forms. The ichibi resembles a raccoon-dog more than anything. But all of them are massive constructs of chakra with a will of their own. During the shinobi wars, each village sought to acquire them and use them for their militaristic purposes, with sealing them into jinchuurikis to make them human weapons as the safest means possible." Chiyo continued.

Sakura gave Naruto a glance, noticing his forlorn look. 'Naruto had that thing put in him so he'd become a weapon? I know that to a point all us shinobi are weapons but it's because we chose this career path. Who in their right mind forces a child into this work from the moment they're born?'

"The problem with this is that the power of a bijuu is difficult to control even for jinchuuriki and considering what they have to endure as they mature until they can use the bijuus power, there's no guarantee the jinchuuriki will not pose a risk themselves. So I can't begin to imagine just what the Akatsuki actually want with the bijuu." Chiyo added.

"These Akatsuki guys sound like madmen to me." Lilith commented to her host. "I've personally dealt with the bijuu in the past and believe me when I tell you they do not like to be under someone else's thumb. I will admit the kyuubi was a good night though, oh the things he did to me. I swear my vaginal lips grinned that night."

Hinata tried not to gag or trip over her own feet at hearing that. 'Lilith... and Kyuubi... together?' She glanced back at Naruto. 'Whoa! The demon in him and the demon in me once had something together! I've heard nothing happens by accident, but this is ridiculous. Or maybe it's a sign that we truly are meant for each other.'

Lilith kept talking to herself, probably wanting Hinata to hear her statements. "Now that I think about it, maybe that's why your man-meat had such appeal to me before. And knowing it makes me like him even more. Think when I get out of here you me and him can have a threeway? When you think about it we already have since he's pleasing both of us together, so why not do it directly when I'm outside you again?"

Hinata didn't answer out loud, but the succubus in her could practically feel the growing hostility. "Oh come on girl, lighten up. You know I'm right. He's pleased us both so what's the harm when we're two rather than one?"

Hinata looked back at Naruto. 'No one is going to take my man away from me. No one! Not Sakura, not Akatsuki, not even you Lilith.'

The group left the trees when the forest gave way to a flat meadow. Kakashi came to a stop, and the ninja with him did too. "Something wrong sensei?" Naruto quietly asked.

"Someone's here. Someone... sinister."

Form out of the shade of the trees in front of them to their right emerged a man wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it. The man was clearly Akatsuki, and right away Naruto recognized him even though at first his face was hidden in the shadows.

"Uchiha... Itachi!" The blonde jinchuuriki said.

'It just had to be him.' Kakashi told himself.

"Kakashi-san, Naruto-kun, it's been a long time." Itachi said calmly, almost too calmly, as he pointed at them both.

"So this is the child that killed his entire family in one night?" Chiyo asked, although it was more of a statement really.

'This is Sasuke-kun's brother?' Sakura asked herself. 'This is the one who's inflicted so much pain on Sasuke-kun and Naruto!'

Hinata glared. 'So you tried to kill my love once and now you're back for more? Oh I am so going to rip your dick off and shove it so far up your ass you'll be coughing up cum.'

"You bastard!" Naruto shouted. "Not just me, but Gaara too? I'll beat you all down into Hell itself!"

Itachi responded simply by holding his right hand in front of himself, revealing his Akatsuki ring. Kakashi saw it first. "Everyone, don't look directly into his eyes! It's dangerous!"

Itachi formed a one-handed sign. "So what should we do?" Sakura asked.

"Judge his movements by his body and feet." Kakashi told her, remembering some advice he gained from Gai years ago. "His genjutsus are vision type, so as long as eye contact is avoided he can't catch you in it."

Itachi dropped his hand sign and now had both hands in front of him, albeit empty. Sakura made sure to avoid looking at his face. "That's not going to be easy."

Chiyo lightly smirked. "It's been a while since I've faced an Uchiha, but rest assured there are ways around their eyes."

"Like what?" Naruto asked.

"Uchihas are at their strongest when they fight one-on-one battles or have the advantage of numbers. But when the opposition has more numbers, like us right now, they are weaker, since they can't trap everyone in their genjutsus. By trapping one person, they leave themselves open to attacks from the ones they miss, or the unaffected ones can break the genjutsus of their trapped allies."

"I see." Sakura said. Fortunately by now she was mature enough to accept the fact that Uchihas, including Sasuke, were not by definition completely invulnerable and without weakness.

Hinata frowned. 'Why is he just standing there letting us plan our retaliation? Shouldn't he have tried something by now?'

Kakashi glanced at Chiyo. "That would be true, but this guy here has the mangekyo sharingan, so using that approach will not as easy as you make it sound."

"Wisely noted Kakashi-san. Even though it's been years since our one encounter, I'm impressed you've been prepared for this reunion." Itachi said, his arms now down by his sides.

"Not only that, but I'm aware that you can't perform your genjutsus for long as such a thing is hazardous to your eyes." Kakashi added, hoping to delay Itachi from doing anything a bit longer and give his team enough time to prepare themselves for what he inevitably does.

"And you deduced that from a single fight?" Itachi asked.

Kakashi lifted his hitai-ate. "So how much has your vision gone bad?"

Itachi's body suddenly jerked. "Impossible."

"He's in my genjutsu now. Cover me while I go get him." Kakashi told his students. He then rushed forward to knock Itachi out, but when he tried the Uchiha raised his right arm to block. And when that happened, a second Itachi appeared and ran towards Naruto.

Naruto created a shadow clone and then a quick rasengan, and rammed it into Itachi's chest. But Itachi turned out to be a shadow clone and poofed away. When the smoke cleared, Naruto looked around and saw everyone around him laying down as if suddenly forced to sleep.

"Hinata-chan? Sakura?" He asked, worried about what may have happened to them. He saw Hinata, Sakura, and Chiyo get back on their feet, but turn into copies of Itachi as they did and stand around him like a triangle. Naruto threw kunais in all directions and hit each of them, but they all turned into a flock of crows that surrounded him in a cyclone of birds. A few of them came together in the air and reformed into Itachi. "Dammit! But I didn't look into his eyes."

"I never said my eyes were the only way I can cast genjutsu, did I?" Itachi told the younger boy. "All I need is one finger."

Naruto remembered a few moments ago when Itachi pointed at him. 'So that was when he got me.'

"But don't worry, I won't use the mangekyo sharingan on you just yet." Itachi told him. "Or rather, I can't use it at this time." He formed the ram sign. "So I'll just put you to sleep then."

'How do I get out of this?' Naruto asked himself, trying to remember anything and everything Jiraiya had taught him about countering genjutsus. He remember that he had to either hurt himself, disrupt his own chakra flow, or have a partner touch him and put their chakra into him to disrupt the chakra creating the genjutsu. Naruto chose to unleash a large amount of his own chakra since that appeared to be the better answer here.

Itachi was impressed by the attempt to get free. "He's gotten stronger, but he's still too weak." He made the crows in the genjutsu dive at Naruto and turn into shuriken, hitting Naruto and breaking his concentration, but not destroying it.

Naruto was undaunted. 'It's just an illusion! I can beat this mind trick!' He did get worried when he saw some skin on his cheek start to flake away, but it didn't last. The crows and shurikens around him suddenly disappeared, and the next thing he knew he saw Hinata with her hands on his arms.

"Feeling better now Naruto-kun?" She asked, worry evident in her voice and eyes.

'Oh yeah, she has a genjutsu expert for a sensei. Of course she knows how to recognize one and how to get out of one.' Naruto told himself. "Much better thanks to you Hinata-chan."

Meanwhile, the real Itachi pushed Kakashi back, who jumped back in the process and landed closer to Naruto. "Naruto, you okay?" He asked without turning his back on Itachi.

"Now I am. But be careful Kakashi-sensei. Eye jutsus aren't the only jutsus he uses."

"I was afraid of that. So put all you have into this fight Naruto." Kakashi then dove right back into the fight. Naruto rushed forward to help his sensei, and Hinata joined to help Naruto.

Itachi made two hand signs. "Fire Style Great Fireball Jutsu!" He then exhaled a gigantic ball of fire that headed towards the Konoha nin. They all had to jump out of the way and hide behind some trees until the fireball collided with a target and went away, leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Kakashi however dove underground for cover and surprised Itachi by emerging underneath him in front of him and giving him a sharp uppercut to his jaw.

Only briefly dazed, the rogue Uchiha grabbed ahold of Kakashi's sleeve to hold him in place and tried to punch back. The cycloptic jounin ducked under his foe's fist and tried to close the gap between them, hoping for a more effective harder-to-dodge hit this way. But for a brief instance, the two ninja made eye contact, and Kakashi found himself trapped in s genjutsu.

Itachi heard something moving to his left and saw Kakashi come out of the ground. 'So I've got a shadow clone.'

"Get him Naruto!"

"I'm on it!" The orange-loving ninja replied, already forming a rather big rasengan with a clone.

Itachi was about to get away, but Hinata came up from behind him and used her succubus talons to cut his achilles tendons. "You're not going anywhere."

Naruto made contact just after Hinata got out of the way. "Odama Rasengan!" He and the clone shouted as the attack practically caused an explosion.

Sakura felt the shockwave even from where she stood. "Amazing!" She said with no small amount of awe. As the smoke began to dissipate she and Chiyo came towards the rest of their group.

When the smoke from the odama rasengan was gone, there was a body in the crater, wearing the Akatsuki cloak. But this body was clearly not Itachi's body. It was a man with short brown hair and a goatee.

"What's going on?" Hinata asked.

"This man... is a jounin from my village named Yuura." Chiyo responded.

"Was he just impersonating Itachi?" Naruto asked.

"Unlikely. This guy was able to use fire jutsu and genjutsu much like how an Uchiha would be able to. Even the best henge can't mimic a person to that degree." Kakashi answered. "Whatever they used, I don't have a clue."

"Why would Yuura-san be involved with Akatsuki? He's been working hard for Suna's defense and leadership for over four years."

"He may have been a long-term plant for them." Sakura mused. 'Naruto has these kind of people after him?'

"In any case, the real Itachi is probably at the base where Gaara is and left this doppelganger here to slow us down." Kakashi stated.

"Which means that by now they've already started to remove the ichibi from it's host." Chiyo added, alarming everyone but especially Naruto. "They may even be close to finishing by now. We have no time to waste then."

"How exactly do you remove a bijuu by the way?" Hinata asked, wondering if such a thing may ever happen to Naruto or her. She was naturally more worried about Naruto experiencing this than herself.

"Someone, or a group of people, with an incredible amount of chakra themselves would need to have a seal strong enough to overpower the seal already on the jinchuuriki containing the bijuu. If for even an instant that process overwhelms the seal, the new seal can pull the bijuu out and maybe place it somewhere else. But in the process, the jinchuuriki dies." Chiyo explained.

This information made Sakura look at Naruto with worry and concern. 'Someone actually wants to kill Naruto for their own power? Like he said Sasuke-kun tried to do? The Akatsuki are even bigger monsters than the kyuubi is.'

Naruto saw her look at him and even shed a small tear, but he looked away, feeling bothered by that. 'Isn't that just great? She cries for me when my life is actually threatened, but when it isn't she sees little reason to treat me with respect. Can't she make up her mind on where I stand with her? At least with Hinata-chan I know my value.'

Hinata saw Sakura's concern and lightly frowned. 'I'm willing to believe that some of the things she said the other night were more out of anger than anything, but still, I don't like how bipolar she is regarding MY Naruto-kun. After this mission, I'm going to get to the root of her opinion on him, but no matter what, she lost her chance to claim him for herself as far as I'm concerned.'

Hinata then went up to Naruto and lightly hugged him. "Relax Naruto-kun, we'll still save Gaara. But not if we keep standing here talking about it."

Naruto nodded. "You're right Hinata-chan. And Sakura, no need to worry, they won't get me today, or any other day."

Sakura shedded a few more tears. "But how can you know for certain?"

"I just do. Now, let's get going." Without waiting for a response, Naruto and Hinata stared walking off in the direction they had been going before the Itachi impostor delayed them.

'Naruto... please don't die on me.' Sakura said to herself, then followed him along with Kakashi and Chiyo.

A little after they left, Zetsu came by and destroyed Yuura's remains.

Many hours later including a brief break, a few changes of scenery, and a small discussion between Kakashi and Chiyo on Naruto's motives here, they reached their destination. When they got there, they saw Gai and his students already there too, standing before a giant boulder at the base of a cliff with a seal on it and behind a torii gate.

"We have to break the barrier first." Gai could be heard telling his students.

"How?" Tenten asked.

"That looks like a five barrier seal to me." Kakashi claimed, making his presence known to the other Konoha team. Thanks to Inoichi removing any memory of that image Hinata forced into his mind he could work with Gai here without problem. He wasn't even aware that the horrible image included Gai by now.

"Ah, you're late Kakashi." Gai said.

"We ran into a bit of trouble on our way here."

"Naruto-kun, Sakura-chan, good to see you." Lee happily said.

"Hinata?" Neji asked. "What are you doing here?"

"I needed to come along." Hinata replied. She was tempted to toy with him and make him shut up by asking him about Tenten, but decided that may affect the mission and thus kept her mouth shut.

"I think I'll disappear, as I'll only be in the way from this point on." Pakkun stated.

"Okay, and good work." Kakashi told his dog before he vanished.

"So how do we take down this barrier Kakashi?" Gai asked.

"From my experience, a five barrier seal like this is created by seals with the kanji for 'Forbidden' written on them placed in surrounding areas. On this boulder is just one of them, so four more should be in the vicinity. But each one of them must be removed simultaneously for it to work."

"Can you see where they are Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked.

Hinata nodded. "Byakugan." She checked everywhere she could with her doujutsu, and Neji joined her. "There's one on a rock about 500 meters northeast of here, on the trunk of a tree by a river 350 meters southeast of here, on a cliffside 650 meters from here and about 100 meters up the cliff, and on a treeside in a forest about 800 meters southwest of here."

"I confirm." Neji added.

"In that case, my team and I will go find these seals, and use these radios to keep in touch with each other." Gai said as he pulled out some radio headsets. Neji, Tenten, and Lee each took one and strapped it onto themselves. "My team is faster so we're the better ones to get this done in a hurry. Team, set your headsets for frequency 174."

Lee nodded and grabbed his microphone. "Testing. Testing. 1 2 3 testing." The others on his team violently spasmed and grabbed their heads.

"LEE!" Tenten screamed as her ears pounded in her head like someone dribbling a bowling ball. "You've got it on too damn loud!"

"Oops, my bad." He said, unfortunately still talking into the microphone causing further agony. Hinata quickly reached over and turned the volume dial on his down.

'I'm just glad I didn't put mine on yet.' Kakashi said with a large anime-style sweatdrop on his head.

Gai, Neji, and Tenten all needed a moment to recover from that, but they recovered quickly. "Alright team, let's show them the power of youth! Scatter!" Gai ordered, and he and his students took off in different directions. Kakashi and his group stood in front f the boulder, waiting for the signal to go forward.

With Neji's guidance and the radios, it barely took any time for Gai's team to find the other four seals. Neji was by the first one, Tenten the second one, Gai the third one, and Lee the fourth one. "Okay everyone, on the count of three remove the seals." Kakashi also got ready to remove the seal on the boulder blocking their way to Gaara. "One, two, three!"

The five seals were pealed off at once in unison. "Sakura, buttonhook entry." Kakashi told his kunoichi student.

Sakura charged forward ready to hit the rock much harder than she ever hit anything before, even Naruto. Her chakra-powered punch made contact and the large rock began to shatter.

Meanwhile, Gai's team noticed that the seal apparently came with a defense. Copies of each person who removed the seals formed from the ground before them.

"What the hell is this?" Tenten asked.

"Looks like our enemies don't want us to return to help Kakashi's team." Gai declared.

"So they set up a defense mechanism to guarantee that even if someone found them and tried to stop them, at least four people in that group would be drawn away from the lair and would be unable to immediately return. Thus weakening the numbers of those left to actually go into the lair." Neji said. "Whoever these people are, they sure don't do things half-assed."

"Be careful Neji-kun." Tenten whispered, knowing Lee and Gai may hear it but more concerned for her lover than anything else.

"Thanks Tenten-chan, you too."

Back with Kakashi's group, a large hole appeared where the boulder once was. Sakura felt proud of herself, and avoided giving Hinata a condescending smirk. 'Ha, try and top that bimbo. Naruto may favor you for now because of your sex appeal, but he admires strength and I have more than you do. He'll go back to loving me in no time.'

Sakura herself was not sure of why this issue mattered to her so much. To her, Naruto was just a friend. Maybe not a perfect friend, but a good friend she strongly valued. That's why at first when Hinata tried to actively pursue a relationship with him, she actually supported it because she wanted him to be happy. But ever since Hinata made herself known to him sexually, Sakura felt a bit hurt, probably because it meant Naruto would no longer give her that special look anymore, that look that made her feel valued.

Sakura did want Naruto to be happy, but not at the expense of their friendship. If Hinata came in and swept him away with oozing sex appeal, something Sakura considerably lacked by comparison, then why would Naruto want to do anything with or for Sakura anymore? Naruto may be a dense man, but he was a man. Now that he had Hinata and she was giving him everything he could want, why would he ever even look at Sakura again? The pinkette didn't like the sound of that.

In short, Sakura was jealous. Jealous that the sexy girl had gotten her desired man, a man that Sakura herself could have had. Jealous that Naruto gave Hinata the 'chan' suffix rather than her. Jealous that she didn't have as great a figure as the Hyuuga heiress. And in her jealousy, Sakura lashed out in inappropriate ways that would come back to bite her in the ass. But she couldn't help herself; Sakura was just a defensive person when her character was being stricken. And when she was badmouthed or villainized, she tended to turn the tables around on her antagonizer; in this case, calling Hinata a slut and Naruto pathetic. She didn't believe Naruto was really pathetic, but in her anger it just came out.

The group went into the lair and immediately took defensive stances. All they saw was two men standing by Gaara's immobile body alongside a giant white bird. Chiyo quickly recognized one of them as Sasori. Naruto just saw the downed Gaara.

"So.. which one of them is the jinchuuriki?" Deidara asked as he sat down disrespectfully on Gaara's body.

Seeing Gaara look so... dead made Naruto mad enough that his whisker marks deepened and his eyes turn red with slits. "YOU BASTARDS! I'LL KILL YOU!"

"That must be him." Sasori said to his partner.

"Loud and likely to be the first to make a move, just like Itachi said. I guess it is him." Deidara replied.

"Gaara! Stand up!" Naruto shouted. Deep in his heart he knew the truth, but he was in denial about it.

"Not going to happen kid. We got what we wanted. This guy's gone. But if you want the body, I suppose we could let you have it... after you take it from us." Deidara teasingly said as he stood up.

Naruto growled. Kakashi stood in front of him to defer him, but Naruto pulled out a scroll and unsealed a large shuriken and threw it. A metal scorpion tail emerged from Sasori's robes and deflected the throwing star.

"He barely even glanced at Naruto's attack and still blocked it." Sakura commented.

"His puppetry skills haven't dulled at all I see." Chiyo added.

Deidara's clay bird grabbed Gaara's body with its mouth and swallowed him. Deidara jumped on top and the bird flew off. "See ya later Sasori my man."

Naruto ran out, and Hinata followed him. Kakashi looked at the ladies. "I'll follow Naruto and assist him. You two take care of this one. But try not to overdo it until Gai's team gets back."

"Got it." Sakura said, and then Kakashi left.

Naruto and Hinata stood on top the torii gate, soon joined by Kakashi, staring up at the hovering Deidara. "Do you three really want to chase me? And leave those two behind? My man Sasori is even more dangerous than I am, so they're going to be in some serious shit."

"Hinata-chan, maybe you should help them out." Naruto suggested.

"No way Naruto-kun. Believe me, I've got a trick that makes me much better suited for this one." The Hyuuga heiress responded.

Kakashi looked skeptical. "Then by all means get to work Hinata."

"With pleasure." Hinata said as she took off her jacket and wrapped the sleeves around her waist. She then mouthed. 'Lilith, I'm going to need your help here.'

"Love to. I miss hunting as much as I did sex." The succubus said as she offered some of her chakra to her host.

Hinata smiled as she felt her wings start to form on her upper backside and her tail from her lower backside, surprising everyone who could see her. Naruto was aware she had a demon in her and could access its skills and form when needed, since she told him on the trip to Suna, but this was his first time actually seeing it.

For added measure, Hinata grew her fangs and claws too, then with a flap of her wings took to the sky. "You're not the only one who can fly punk."

Now Deidara was worried and took off down the canyon around the lair. Hinata followed him, with Lilith providing a small wind jutsu to help guide her in flight. Naruto and Kakashi followed them both from below.

"Naruto, is there something you'd like to tell me?" Kakashi asked.

"Now's not the right time sensei." The blonde jinchuuriki told him.

Deidara formed a few small birds and threw them at Hinata. Lilith couldn't help but notice his unusual hands. "He has mouths on his palms? Does that mean he can give himself a handjob and a blowjob at the same time?"

Hinata ignored the off-color comment and decided to retaliate instead. She held her talons in front of herself and on instinct put chakra into them, making them glow. "Demon Art Flash Slash." She then waved her arms in a swiping motion and arches of glowing energy flew off them towards the clay birds, impacting them and destroying them. The demon energy cancelled out the explosive energy, making them just crumble into harmless dust. "Nice! I gotta remember that one!"

Deidara was now even more alarmed. "How could she render my artwork useless?"

Kakashi walked along the cliff wall that Deidara wasn't looking at and threw a shuriken at the former Iwa nin. It impacted the bird he rode and it exploded. Deidara himself jumped off and made a replacement bird that flew down to catch Gaara's body. Hinata swooped in and thrust her talons into his gut, making him and his bird go off course, then flew back to catch Gaara and land safely.

Deidara clutched his bleeding abdomen but his construct remained airborne. "Damn that bitch."

"Good job Hinata." Kakashi said when he saw Gaara's body was out of Aaktsuki's clutches. Naruto was already looking calmer.

Hinata looked up. "It's not over yet Kakashi-san." She took to the air again. She saw Deidara was unable to mold clay at the moment. "Try this on for size. Sexual Nightmare!" She then cast the succubus genjutsu on him.

Normally Deidara had a better resistance to genjutsu since he worked at that after being around Itachi, but demonized genjutsus were too much for him to resist. So he ended up caught in it and saw something horribly distasteful displayed in an attempt to be sexy. In his case, that was him having an orgy with Sasori's hundreds of puppets while Sasori pulled the strings. And if that wasn't bad enough, Sasori's body in this was that of a sex doll, with his soul scroll in the dolls wide open mouth designed for oral pleasure, and all of his other puppets looked inflatable.

"AHHH! MAKE IT STOP!" He screamed.

Hinata flew over and kicked the Iwa nin in the side of his head, knocking him off his bird and into the river. He landed in the shallow end and must have hit something really hard because he shrieked in a high pitch and passed out clutching himself.

"Is he still alive?" Kakashi asked Hinata as she landed.

Hinata looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, he's fine. His dick broke his fall."