I don't own Naruto.
Sakura sat in Tsunade's office, a torn down look on her face. She had the look of shame all over her features, and no one could figure out why. Her emerald eyes studied the picture in front of her. "She will be beautiful…" she said softly and Tsunade looked at her with a curious look, but then the look became one of realization. "You do realize, her picture was never there before, right? I had turned the book inside out trying to find out new poison antidotes, but that picture was never there." Tsunade said and Sakura nodded.
"I know, I did the same exact thing, Tsunade-sama. Shizune has as well, I'm sure." Sakura sighed and Tsunade looked over at her and folded her hands in front of her face. "You know something about the person who attacked Hinata and I... don't you?" she asked and Sakura furrowed her brows. "The person… wasn't a man like Naruto said." She said and looked at her hands. Had they acted prematurely? Could they have found some way to bring Hinata back if they hadn't killed the person? She didn't know, but for the past week; those thoughts haunted her. Her and Naruto had acted rashly and the person had been obliterated by the RasenShuriken.
"What can you tell me of her, you were the closest after all. And knowing you, you paid attention to detail, unlike a certain blonde boyfriend of yours." Tsunade sighed and Sakura rolled her eyes as she referred to Naruto. "Her voice was what originally had me thinking she was a man, but… as I have come to realize, some women with age become raspy with their speech." Sakura said and Tsunade smirked. "Like Tsume?" she asked and the dog woman glared at her from the doorway. "Of course, you would mention me, just cause ya saw me in the damn doorway." Tsume grumbled and Tsunade smiled.
"Of course, everything is about you, Tsume." Tsunade said and motioned for the woman to close the door. "Tsume-san, why are you here?" Sakura asked and the doggish woman gave her a stern look. "You smelled familiar pinky. And I don't mean as in the way YOU smell." She said and Sakura blinked. "Continue with your description girl, I want to see if what I think I know is true." Tsume urged and Sakura nodded. "Her voice was deep, which had originally given the impression of a male, but when I got closer… She had just the aura of an elderly woman. She could have dodged… but she didn't. The last thing I heard from her was… it was… 'Go back to where you belong, save them Hinata.' She sounded as if she knew exactly who Hinata was… her main focus was Hinata. Her attack on Shishou was just a distraction." Sakura said and Tsunade nodded.
"I figured as much. Was there anything-" she began, but Sakura spoke before she could finish. "Her eyes glowed a bright blue, she smelled of dog… and… and I think I saw red on her face." Sakura said and a serious look broke over Tsume's face. "I have nothing against your description… but If she smelled of mutt then where the hell was the damn thing?" Tsume grumbled and the dog beside her who looked like a war torn soldier gave her a dirty look. "You realize that none of you Inuzuka have blue eyes right?" the dog grumbled and Tsume nodded. "Yer outta yer damn mind. Your seriously believe that? Mutt, where the hell have you been when we have been teaching the youngsters?" Tsume grumbled, catching the attention of the rest of the people in the room.
"There was once an Inuzuka with blue eyes. Let me tell ya a story. The story of the first Inuzuka, which I believe took Hinata." Tsume said and Tsunade gave her an odd look. "What do you mean by that?" Tsunade said and Tsume pulled out a small notebook. "This is the book of the clan leaders, Their abilities and such. The first talkin mutt we had was named Kuma. He was the most ferocious mutt you could ever encounter. The bastard was half wolf, half Pyrenees. Our Mutts are Pyrenees, the biggest baddest mutts out there. they can take down a bear on their own." Tsume said with a grin and Tsunade sighed.
"Is this going somewhere or are you just going to continue to boast about your dogs?" she asked and Tsume scoffed at her. "As if! That Dog, Kuma was the biggest damn mutt ever. He was the original Inuzuka partner." She said and Tsunade nodded. "Anyways, his partner, the original Clan founder was born a bastard." Tsume said and Tsunade frowned. "Well, damn, Tsu-Tsu. You expect me to lie and say her pops was her real dad and her mom wasn't a cheating whore?" Tsume scoffed and Tsunade sighed.
"They were from a Useless clan who never accomplished anything but creating our marvelous clan. They were a bunch of high-end pricks too. The fuckers were like the Hyuuga, except broke." She scoffed and Tsunade rubbed her brow. "Language please Tsume, who knows if someone you are bad mouthing walks in…" she sighed and Tsume grinned. "As if, Hiashi can shove a stick where the sun doesn't shine. But... anyways. Her name was Kaira, and in this little book here, it says she was forced into the fight with the Uchiha and the Senju. Also says she tried to settle the fighting peacefully, but in the end, she lost it when her son's father died and went off the deep end. She had begun to listen to them crazy ass oracles who said they could see the future. Her Sixteen-year-old son eventually took over the Clan and decided to let his mother free from the leadership burden. Trust me, she went far off the deep end. Says here she was fiddling with time space jutsu." Tsume said and Tsunade's brow furrowed in thought.
"Apparently the oracles blamed Mito Uzumaki for the death of the Uchiha named Izuna, which in turn made Madara go bonkers as well. You see the pattern here? Despair brings the crazies and the crazies listen to the others. Anyways, the fight was a three-sided fight with the red haired Uzumaki telling Hashirama what to do. But she wrote that the oracles spoke of a woman resembling the moon and night with a name that means a sunny place. A contradiction in its own making. That was what caught my eye there. Hinata… that's the name they speak of. But they never mention if she gets the girl or not, but you see they got her this time. They are throwing the poor kid right into the middle of their feud." Tsume said and dropped her feet on Tsunade's desk.
"So, what you're telling us is… A crazy old bat from Madara's time, and your family, kidnapped my daughter to try and save the God of shinobi AND the Uchiha?" Hiashi's voice rang out from behind. "Is everyone getting the all access pass into ya office today?" Tsume asked with a grin. "I love how you are all just grinning because my daughter was thrown into the time where the monsters who tried to kill us not even two years ago are." He grumbled. "You don't get it do you? Hinata could quite possibly make it to where you don't have to worry about the forsaken war." Tsume said and the entire group looked at her.
"Think about it, if she is there, protecting them; and Kaira Inuzuka is there too, then she will protect who she decides to and Hinata will deal with the Senju boys. You don't think things through! You realize that this could be just what we need to fix the stupid shinobi system!" Tsume ground out and Hiashi furrowed his brows. "Or my eldest could die." He snapped and turned on his heel and walked out. Tsume growled and followed suit. Sakura and Tsunade sat there, pondering what Tsume, had very briefly told them. Tsunade sighed. "Sometimes, I think that woman is off her rocker…" she sighed and Sakura frowned. "She may be right… we may just have to wait and see though…" she sighed and bowed to the blonde before she left as well.
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Hinata followed Hashirama and Tobirama, the latter giving her menacing looks the entire time while his older brother glared at him. "Keep an eye out you two, something feels off." Hashirama said and Hinata nodded, activating her Byakugan to scour the area beyond them. She froze as the large group of shinobi neared the clearing. Something felt off about this land, it felt familiar in some way but she couldn't quite place it. The layout was different, but she felt like she had been here before. She turned her thoughts from the familiarity of the place to the Shinobi that were fast approaching. A brigade of shinobi rushed past Hashirama, Tobirama, and herself. They were the Senju back up. A large gust of wind sent them flying backwards, and she looked to see if the men were ok.
Hinata felt the menacing chakra and it made her bones tremor, she had felt this before… This chakra was VERY familiar. "M-Madara… U-Uchiha…" she stammered breathlessly as her eyes shakily caught sight of the man and she attempted to take a few steps back. But a glare from Tobirama made her attempt to steel her nerves, she was not going to look weak in front of the bully. She saw that a man not much younger than he was stood beside him. Hinata's eyes went wide. "His brother… That's what did this…" she whispered and Tobirama scoffed at her. "Idiot." He scoffed.
She fisted her hands at her sides and her lip trembled. "I'm n-not an idiot. You have n-no idea what I am talking about b-because it goes right over your s-stupid head!" she snapped and turned away from him. If she could only lose the stammer perhaps that could have been intimidating. She dropped down into her stance as Hashirama clashed weapons with Madara. Tobirama lunged for Madara's younger brother, while Hinata waited for the backup Uchiha to rush at her. There were a lot more of them than there were of her, but they were weaker than anyone she had ever seen. She wasn't going to underestimate them just because they had severely underdeveloped chakra networks though, because they could possibly have other strengths.
They rushed at her and she shot forwards taking out as many of them as she could before something tore through them. It was huge and was tossing the men all over the place. She flipped backwards to avoid the jaws of the large creature. Its growls drove fear deep within her being, her eyes were wide, her body trembled and she hit her knees in front of the dog the size of a bear. On all fours, the beast just about reached her shoulders, as Akamaru reached a bit above her waist. It was about twice as big as Akamaru. She began moving backwards away from it and it just watched her. "You smell familiar, human. So, I shall not mutilate you as I will the Uchiha and Senju. My quarrel is not yours." The dog growled and Hinata's eyes rolled up and she collapsed against the ground.
The four fighting shinobi stopped fighting and turned to face the large creature. "Hinata!" Hashirama yelled and attempted to run over to her, but the wolfish dog rammed him and sent him stumbling back. "You will wait, Senju." It growled and they stepped back away from the animal, their swords drawn. A soft thump on the grass made the men turn to face the newcomer. She had blazing cerulean blue eyes, long reddish-brown hair in a low ponytail at the base of her neck while the hair that fell in the front resembled the common style of the Uzumaki clan. Hinata woke to see the woman with the hairstyle matching Kushina Uzumaki's and she scrambled to her feet.
She ran over to the Senju and hid behind Hashirama, who placed a hand on her arm in an attempt to comfort her. "Inuzuka-san…" Hinata called out quietly from behind Hashirama and the woman turned her stern gaze on her. "What the hell do you dumb pricks think you're doing? How many times does it have to be repeated that this is my damn property and you nit pickin turds won't be fighting on my land?" she snarled and Hinata wasn't at all fazed by her foul mouth, obviously the Inuzuka got it from somewhere.
The Senju and the Uchiha on the hand were quite surprised. "Well, Inuzuka-teme, I kinda thought it was a polite offer, seeing as the rest of your pansy ass clan are really terrified if we even breathe their direction. "You have until the count of three to get off my land, and the next time you trespass, you will be leaving in a bag. Or… you won't leave at all. Kuma-kun needs a Big meaty meal every once and a while." She said with a wicked smirk. Hinata cringed, of course, the Inuzuka had a twisted sense of humor.
"You… girl…" she called out and Hinata looked over to her. "You reek of Inuzuka and Aburame. Tell me… How is that?" she asked and Hinata hid herself further behind Hashirama. "Kiba and Shino… are… were my teammates…" she said and the woman huffed. "I have never heard of an Inuzuka or an Aburame of those names." She muttered, only to turn back to the others. "Anyways…. One…" she began and Hinata saw her flick something from her sleeve and her brow furrowed. "Two…" she said and that something had slipped out of her sleeve. Hinata couldn't tell what it was, but the Uchiha had already begun to leave, not caring what happened to the other clan in the slightest. Hashirama and Hinata had begun to move as well, but Tobirama stood his ground.
"Three…" she sighed and brought the object to her mouth, but before Hinata could say anything, the needle hit Tobirama right in the side of his neck. His eyes fluttered shut and the Inuzuka woman turned and walked away as Tobirama hit the ground. "You Fool!" Hashirama yelled as he ran to drag his brother from the ground. "I told you all that you had to the count of three…" she said as she vanished into the surrounding trees. Hinata and Hashirama got him back to the compound as fast as they could.
They set Tobirama on the bed and Hinata had begun requesting items that she had seen Tsunade and Sakura use when they were extracting unknown poisons. She spent hours trying to get all the poison from his system, Hashirama stood by her side, lending her chakra every now and then so she could continue to try and save his brother. By the time Hinata was finished, she was exhausted. She had decided to begin on the antidote, so that if they encountered the woman once more, then she would not be able to hinder them in such a manner once more.
Hinata stood and turned to make her way over to the table in the corner, but she stumbled and almost fell. Hashirama caught her and placed her in a chair across the room. He sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Damn you and your stubbornness… Tobirama you're an idiot." He growled and his brother rolled over in his sleep. He looked peaceful now. In all the time it had taken to get the poison… he had been yelling, tossing, and turning. He had yelled loud enough to have every member of the Senju crowded in his room now. Their father frowned down at his youngest and placed his cloak over the sleeping Hyuuga girl, four hours is how long it had taken to remove the self regenerating poison from his system completely.
"So, Tobirama was being as stubborn as a mule again, wasn't he?" their father asked and he nodded. "As usual, he was belittling Hinata and yet she still saved him." Hashirama sighed and Butsuma looked over at her. "If it were me, I would have just kicked his ass and regretted it later. She just stayed silent and fought off the Uchiha, that is… until An Inuzuka made her appearance." He sighed and Butsuma's eyes widened. "One of the weaklings stood against us?" he snapped and Hashirama shook his head. "She was far from weak, she took down Tobirama with a single dart, and took down the Uchiha brigade completely. Father… She has a dog that when standing, reaches my shoulders. I have no clue what we are supposed to do about that…" he said and his father furrowed his brow.
"We try to make her an ally before the Uchiha can." He said and Hinata looked over at them, her half lidded eyes barely focusing on them. "She has no desire to ally up… she just wants you to stop fighting on her land…" she said, her voice crackled with exhaustion. Butsuma nodded as Hashirama lifted Hinata up and carried her to her own room. Hashirama set her in her own bed and he watched her for a moment. He couldn't quite figure out some things about her, like why she just didn't hit his brother, but instead saved his life. He was grateful, don't get him wrong. He was just confused.
A soft smile crossed her lips and he nodded to himself. He was going to talk to her more. Get to know her and train with her. He would be her friend, even if his brother was against the woman being here at all. It was the least he could do to repay her for saving his hardheaded younger brother. "Thank you, Hinata…" he said and watched as she snuggled deeper under the blankets.