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If I owned Naruto why would I need a disclaimer

Who's the Hostage

By: EDelta88

Chapter 3: Damned if I Do. Damned if I Don't

"I'm surprised kit, here you grew some stones and took a hostage."

'Kyuubi-teme, If I have to tell you one more time to shut-up, I'll-'

"You'll what kit? Not talk to me for a while? I can see it now: 'Oh Naruto-sama, please speak to me, It's been to long, I need somebody to talk to' Is that really the best you've got?

'Can I finish now?'

"I don't know, can you."

'God damn smartass grammatically correct bastard.'

"A few mellenia can do that to you."

'As I was saying, if you don't put a cork in it I will find a way to relocate the seal, and by extension you, to my ass.'

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO, ANYTHING BUT THAT! PUT ME IN YOUR LIVER, APPENDIX, KIDNEY, ANYTHING BUT THAT!"

'...Are you mocking me?'

"Maybe."

Konoha, Outer Wall

It was dusk. The sun was halfway below the horizon and the guards would be changing shifts any minute now. In the short gap between shifts, Uzumaki Naruto would be over the wall and off in to the woods without anybody the wiser. Well, he hoped it would go that way. Truth be told he could be very quiet and sneaky when he wanted to (years as a prankster, the subsequent evading of prank victims, and being village punching bag will tend to do that)

Even as he waited for the watch to change Naruto debated his actions.

'I can't just leave like this people will worry, then again most of them hate me, but what about Baa-chan and the others?' he thought but then he remembered why he was doing this in the first place, 'The villagers are starting to target those close to me now that they can't get to me directly so if I'm gone their safe,' he reasoned. Then it was time.

In a matter of seconds he was up, over the walls and into the dense foliage on the other side. Stopping for a moment he was making sure his pack was secure before heading out when he heard something that made him freeze in his tracks.

"N-Naruto-kun?"

He turned and just a few feet behind him, a look of mixed confusion and disbelief adorning her face, stood Hinata staring at him.

He couldn't move, hide or anything as his mind worked feverishly to grasp the situation. What was she doing here, when did she get here, why was she here, would she stop him, had she told anyone.

'Damn it. How the hell did she find me?'

"If I'm not mistaken, those eyes of her's aren't just for looks, no?"(pun very much intended)

'Yoko-bastard... why, at a time like this, would you decide to talk to me?'

"Well, I'm all for leaving the village, gaki. Good job, by the way, with evading the guards without getting caught and finding that hole in the detection field. At this point you have three options-"

'And they would be what exactly?'

"As I was saying before I was so RUDELY interrupted." At this Naruto jumped a little.

"Gaki, you have three choices. One: you run now and leave this girl to tell the large chested one that you left while you run like hell. Two: you kill her, hide the body and go on your merry way. Or, three: you knock this girl out and take her along. Personally I'm partial to the second choice."

'Killing her is completely out of the question fox and you should know that.'

"Foo, you no fun. Well in that case my vote goes to the subdue and drag along."

'And how, pray tell, would I do that without causing a shit load of noise? A master of the Shushin no Jutsu, I am not.'

"And here I thought you knew Kage Bunshin. Silly me," with that there was nothing but the rattling of Naruto's own mind inside his head. Though, just with the rattling, he had a plan at a rather fast pace.

As he brought up his hands in the all too familiar seal, Hinata started wondering what exactly was going on inside the head of her crush. As she was about to move towards him, she hear a poof behind her before everything went black.

Thump, as her eyes rolled back into her head(not that we can tell) Hinata's body went limp. The bunshin caught her, handed her off to Naruto and then disappeared in the same fashion it was created with.

'So I have her, now what?'

"She'll have her uses kit."

'HENTAI-KITSUNE!'

"NOT LIKE THAT GAKI! Think of her as a bargaining chip of sorts."

'Run that by me again, I have the distinct impression that I'm missing something.'

"If, and when, the Large-Chested-One and/or the Merry Band of Old Codgers send the masked ones, I believe you call them ABU or some such gibberish, after your scrawny ass, having her gives you a little bit of leverage with your opponents. I mean, they don't want you to kill the heiress to the all powerful Huuga clan, or sell her, and by extension those interesting eyes of hers, to another village."

'But I wouldn't kill Hinata and I sure as HELL wouldn't sell her to an enemy village or anyone for that matter.'

"They don't know that."

'Ok...Soooo, what now?'

"Generally this is the point at which you disappear kit."

"Well thanks for stating the obvious, but that's not very helpful."

"Run now plan later, though you may want to head in the general direction of Kaze no Kuni."

'That's probably as good a place as any, lots of places to hide and the shifting sands will make me much harder to track.'

"Not to mention there will be a friendly shinobi village close by."

'Why would Suna help me? They're allied with Konoha.'

"Kit, we both know that one day that Shukaku's vessel will be the... I believe the term is Kazekage, sometime soon and until then they're scared shitless of him so what he says goes. It's good to have friends in high places."

Whatever you say Yoko-bastard.'

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"

'Make me fuzzball.'

EDITED: 3/1/10

Muse(Author) rant: I've said it before and I'll say it again: LET'S HEAR IT FOR INSOMNIA FOLKS! Currently It's 4:35 AM and I have just finished this chapter. Review as Always, flames will be used as building blocks and as ammunition against zombies when Armageddon comes. (Kidding, kidding XP, or, am I?) DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN. If any of you know of any good music, drop me a line through Delta's e-mail, it should be on the profile.

Delta's Rant: sure make me the secretary.

Muse: You were born to be one.

Delta: looks up from suspicious little red book "huh you say something"

Muse: "DAMNIT WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO COOL"

Delta: "Cause I'm sweet like that"

Muse: "I hate you"

Delta: "Take a number and get in line"

Muse: -.-

Delta: starts flashing hand seals "...saru, mi, tori. Sionara" waves then flickers out

Muse: "Wait come back I still need you to help me write the next chp!"