- Chapter 9 -

Like there were no words left to say. The two boys stared mindlessly at the girl that looked far to calm for the actual situation at hand. "You know it's not nice to keep people waiting." The lavender eyed girl said coldly, as she stared daggers at the two boys.

"Why-" Before the blonde boy got the chance to ask his question the girl stood up and headed up the stairs. "We need to talk, follow me if you want answers." Without saying another word, she was gone as she walked up the steps leading to the rooftop of the school.

Without a second thought, the blond boy followed, while wiping away the little tears that still lingered. Though just before Naruto could even go one step, he felt a hand tightly grab his right shoulder. "This could be a trap. We can't trust her anymore."

"Your right." The blond haired boy responded, shocking Sasuke a little, since Naruto was a complete knucklehead, and would usually go head first when someone challenged him. But before the raven-haired boy could say another word Naruto pulled his shoulder away, roughly. "But, Bee is still up there and it's my fault he is. Besides, it's not Hinata we can't trust, it's us. We started this. It's time we ended it." And with that, the Uzumaki boy walked up the steps.

"Nothing good comes when he's like this," Sasuke said to himself as he followed Naruto up the steps.

As the boys went up, Naruto stopped as he felt a slight shiver go down his spine when he placed his hand on the nod of the door. Be alive... He repeated to himself as he slowly turned the nod and pushed the steel door open.

Though to tell you the truth nothing could have truly prepared him for what this was...as he soon quickly slammed the door open.

"What's up, my man? Been a while."

Yup, there was nothing that could have prepared the confused blond haired boy. As his friend, which he thought had died by the hands of Hinata, but wasn't, and was right there...holding a finger sandwich...looking slightly beaten up with a busted up lip and swollen eye hidden behind his shards...sitting on a picnic blanket...and having what looked like a picnic.

"Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa" Naruto stuttered.

"What's wrong Naruto? Cat caught your tongue?" Hinata said as she sat beside Bee, completely calm.

"What the hell's going on?! Aren't you suppose to be dead!" Naruto finally spat out.

"Who? Me? Who killed me?" Bee asked as he shoved four more finger sandwiches into his mouth.

A silence soon filled the air as you could see Naruto begin to clench his hands, causing his knuckles to go white. His eyes hid behind his slightly long blond hair. "What the hell is this?" The sound of his voice became dark and nerve-racking.

"He's here to stop you," Hinata said simply.

"Wha-"

Not giving Naruto a second to speak Hinata stood up and spoke, "You think my friends killed them don't you? The bosses of the Jinchūriki gang, that were murdered 1 year ago. in a gang war."

Naruto didn't respond.

But Sasuke quickly walked in front of Naruto, "And what if we did? Are you trying to imply that the info we found about the-" As Sasuke was about to continue, only seconds away from saying the name to should not be said, a knife was thrown, slightly scraping his left cheek.

"Don't you dare say that name. Or next time that knife won't miss." Hinata threatened him as she gave death glares, causing Sasuke to clench his teeth and do the same.

"Yo Hina. This ain't the time to be let'n your emotions get the better of you. You have to focus. At the task at hand." Bee said as he gave her a stern look.

"Bee's right, I don't have all day to explain this to you, so listen up, because I'm only going to say this once. My friends nor I have anything to do with the murder of the Jinchūriki leaders-" Just then a loud wind blow through as everyone turned their focus to the boy panting heavily at the door, as he slammed it open. "If you say that! Then who did! *pant, pant*."

"Konohamuru? What the hell are you doing here?!" Naruto yelled as he turned around and grabbed Konohamuru by his scarf. The young boy paid no mind to his friend, as he ignored him, keeping his focus only on the leader eyed girl. He soon yanked his scarf from out of the blond boys grasp. "That doesn't matter. But this lady has something to do with the deaths of all my sempai's. She'll pay."

Konohamuru kept his hated stare on the Hyuga as quickly pulled out a small knife and began to run towards her. "Konohamuru! Wait!" Naruto yelled, trying to grab the young boys scarf though the red piece of fabric slipped through his fingers.

- CLASH! -

The piercing sound of metal breaking was soon heard, as Konohamuru watched as the tip of his small knife went flying right past his eyes while he gazed in awe at the person in front of him. Bee blocked his attack with one swift hit, with only one of the 8 knives he carried.

The young boy soon began to stutter. "K-K-Killer Be-Be-Bee?"

"Don't ya think you're a bit too young to be playing with knives, little man?" Bee said as he stared down him like a father would when their son had done something bad.

"Wasuremono," With only one sentence. Everyone's attention turned back to the lavender eyed Hyuga.

"What?" Konohamuru said, still in a daze.

"There the ones that sent you that letter." No one dared to say a word as she continued, "I'm not surprised if you don't know who they are, since the only people who do, are people who've been targeted by them, and well, most of those people aren't even alive. Listen, I don't know for sure if they're the ones that killed your friends, but the chances are that it was them."

Hinata stepped a few steps closer to the boy, as she focused all her attention on the 9th Jinchūriki boss that stood before her, his face not showing any reaction so far, she looked deep into his blue eyes with her lavender ones "So now you don't need to go killing every person you assume was responsible for their death. So how about you retire from the gang life. It doesn't suit you."

A pose was heard as the wind started to blow harder, and the skies began to darken."Is that all you wanted to say? Becuase I can tell you didn't just bring us here because you wanted us to be friends again," Naruto looked back into Hinata's lavender eyes with the same intensity. "So how about you tell me what exactly is it you want?"

"Do you plan on fighting Wasuremono?" She said simply.

He replied to her simple question with a simple answer "Yes." Though for some reason when he said that he couldn't keep eye contact with her, like something inside him knew that when he looked up again that she'd look at him disappointedly. This was one of the many effects she had on him.

Hinata clenched her fists as she walked all the way up to him while grabbing a hold of his collar, "You're only going to get yourselves killed! Don't you understand that?!" Hinata's quick changed of mood, surprising Naruto a bit as he lifted his gaze now looking at her. "This is the main reason why I brought Bee!" Bee puffed out air as he bumped his chest, looking ready to fight. "and if he can't stop you then...then...I will." she soon calmed down as she looked seriously at him, loosening her grip.

He couldn't understand it. Why would she try to save him? Didn't he try to kill her and her friends? Was she even telling the truth? But the letter... Everything in him wanted to believe every word she said, but the pain of his past and revenge for his friends was there as well. This was the first and only lead they had. It would be stupid to let it go so easily.

She could tell just by looking at the blonde that he was confused and upset, and she knew it was all her fault. It was her fault that they were here, her fault that Naruto and Sasuke got that letter and it's her fault that her friends almost got killed. If she hadn't come to Konoha, then maybe none of this would have happened. Though these words kept running through her head I don't want you to die. Not any more of my friends. Ok, maybe it wasn't the best move to protect people who tried to kill you, but Hinata's has had lots of people that have tried to kill her, and guess what? Their good friends now. And besides, the fact that he stopped meant that he still cared somewhat about their friendship, right? Though in the end, she probably would have done the same.

Trying to take revenge on the people that killed the people dear to her, yup, she would have done the same in a heartbeat. Yet the only difference is, that she would have gone through with it. Even if she didn't want to. Did this make her a hypocrite, yeah, but...

"Ha," Hinata's train of thought drove off track when she heard Naruto let out a chuckle.

"Now that I think about it, this his to be the first time a person I've tried to kill wanted to protect us. It's kinda confusing. And here I thought that today would be another boring school day." He was trying to be funny, even though this wasn't the time. Though he couldn't help it, that's what happened when he didn't know what to do.

Out of nowhere he felt a warm feeling come from his waist. And when he looked down he couldn't help but stare in awe at the first girl that took his breath away as she was now hugging him."I'm sorry," She said as she buried her head deeper into his chest. "..please don't cry." when she said that he was shocked. Was he really crying? He didn't notice, but when he touched his face, it seemed as though he was. "You don't know these people Naruto. There not like normal gangs. They don't just do this for fun or money, they do this to kill. They've hurt people dear to me, their monsters! And even if you go after them, then what then? You'll be no better than those assholes!"

Could he really just let go? Just forget? But all his friends, they died because of those people. But, if he did go and decided to fight them, what would be to true satisfaction out of it?

The boy looked down at the lavender beauty who was hugging him so tightly. If he died, then he would never get to see her again. Naruto slowly and awkwardly wrapped his arms around the girl as he laid his head on her shoulders. "Ok." Was his only response.

They spent a good while like that till someone rudely interrupted.

"Well lookie here. Seems as though someone's got the hots for our little Hinata, Ain't that right Shino."

"Hn."

Out of nowhere the two boys walked in, with a big smirk on Kiba's face and Shino with his usual blunt face.

"What! I do not!" Naruto yelled, a blush started to spread across his cheeks, as he quickly backed away from Hinata with his hands up in the air.

Trying to ignore the cracking sound of her heart, Hinata quickly walked toward the two boys locking both their heads under her arms. "Wow, you guys, how long has it been, 2 hours since we last talk. What the heck you doing here," Hinata sarcastically said with a crooked smile while squeezing their heads.

"Come on Hinata! We just had to make sure you were ok!" Kiba whined as Shino nodded rapidly. "Come on Hinata! I can't breath!"

Hinata let the two boys fall to the ground as she let out a sad sigh. "Geez, guys. I told you I had this."

"Hey, you spent all night reserching shit about these guys, and you didn't even hesitate to wake us up to find Bee! Where your best friends don't just think that because you told us to stay at home that we were really going to. Like hell, we were going to do that!"

Soon the silent sound of laughter was heard. And once they turned to see who it was, they saw Hinata holding her tummy trying to contain it. "Yeah, I knew that. Though it's funny how you came to late. I believe we've got everything we had to say out. It's that right Naruto?" Hinata said as she turned around. Though once she did, she and the other two boys couldn't help but sweatdrop at what they were seeing.

While the three were talking, it seems as though Naruto and the other boys took it upon themselves to eat away at the rest of the finger sandwiches, that Bee hasn't finished. When Hinata called Naruto's name all four of the boys turned their heads as they all had food shoved into their mouths. "What?"

"You know what never mind," Hinata said in a little disgust.

Naruto swallowed the food that was in his mouth as he stood up while patting his tummy, "By the way, why was there blood all over the stairs? I totally thought that you killed Bee." Naruto asked finally realizing the whole reason he came here.

"Now that you mention it, how the hell do you even know Bee?" Sasuke now asked while wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

Both Hinata and Bee looked at each other as big smiles started to form on their faces. "Yo, that easily, my brother. It's the because Hina here is the Bee's biggest fan!"

- Hinata Punch! -

"That's not even close to being true." Hinata stated as a red bump formed at the side of Bee's head "The truth is that I have a friend that knows the guy, so he introduced us two years back. So it only took one quick call to find out his whereabouts."

"Then why did you make it look like you killed him?" Naruto asked as he went to eat one of the finger sandwiches still left.

"Hm? What are you talking about?" Hinata asked confused.

"Don't give me that Hyuga! There was blood all over the steps, and the janitor said it looked like you were dragging a dead body into the school! It almost gave Naruto a fucking heart attack!" Sasuke yelled as he ran and grabbed Hinata's cheeks and pulled on them really hard.

"Owe!" Hinata yelled in pain. "Wait,Wait,Wait! That might be because Bee wouldn't agree to come when I called him! So I had to drag him here!" Hinata yelled as she slapped Sasuke's hands away while grabbing his cheeks instead. "And don't touch me like that!" She yelled as she pulled his cheeks painfully.

"Yo, you kids. Time to break it up, Yo!" Bee said as he pulled them both apart.

"Fine." They both said angrily while pouting.

"So what now Hina? Are we cool with them or do you want me to make them pay for what they put us through." Kiba said while cracking his knuckles and glaring at Naruto and Sasuke.

Hinata gave an innocent look at the two as she spoke, "That depends. They did almost kill us. Do you plan on going back to where we left off?"

"What!? I thought we were at peace!" Naruto blurted out a bit shocked as what they were saying.

"Well, you did almost kill us and I don't remember you ever saying that you were sorry."

"Ok, Ok, where sorry. We promise will never do it again." Naruto said as he slowly stuck out his hand out.

Hinata looked back at her friends as Shino only have her a small nod though Kiba still didn't look to happy.

"For real? They almost killed us. Hinata, you might know them, but, I don't. I just can't trust them that easily." Kiba slowly yet angerly made his way toward the blonde haired boy, with his hands clenched and his brown hair covering his eyes.

"Kiba?" Hinata said as she watched his action.

Kiba was now only a couple of feet away from Naruto as he glared at him with his wolf-like eyes while he stretched his hand out and shaped his hand look like a gun while pointing at him. "Listen up blondie. I've known you since the moment I enrolled into this school, but we were never friends. So if you want my trust you'll have to earn it. You come up with another stunt like the one you pulled yesterday, then don't think I'll hesitate to shot your brains out."

Hinata quickly grabbed Kiba's arm while pulling it down and realizing a dry laugh."Well now that that's all over why don't we go get Tenten and head to my place? I'm not really feeling like I want to go to class today. Plus I think I already have someone in mind to be the next band member." Hinata smirked evilly to herself.

"S-Scary!" Bee and Kinohomoru cried as they held each other in fear.

"You think that's scary? I've known her for six years, I've seen far scarier." Sasuke said with his blunt face as he headed downstairs.

"Don't say that you rude bastard!" Hinata yelled as she chased after him down the stairs.

"Hey wait for me!" Naruto yelled as he ran after them, will the rest of the boys quickly followed.


|Down Stairs|

Once everyone was about to leave the school Hinata soon stopped at the front of the school door entrance. "Wait! I forgot the picnic blanket upstairs. Shot, if I lose that one, Oji's going to through a fit. Bee come help me!" Hinata said as she grabbed a hold of Bee's white scarf and dragged him with her to the rooftop again.

"Hey, do you want us to help?" Naruto asked.

"No thanks. Here. Take the keys to the house I'll catch you up later, oh! And I already texted Tenten and she says she was not coming but I'll have a thing or two to say about that so just go on ahead." Hinata throws her keys to Naruto as she dragged Bee down through the hall.

|10 Minutes Later...Upstairs|

"...and that's the last of it. Let's get Tenten before she gets to school. I remembered to bring my rope today." Hinata chuckled evilly as she placed her hand in the door to catch up with the others.

"So in the end, you didn't tell them the whole story," Bee said once more, though this time a little bit more deep.

"And what exactly might that be?" She asked as she slightly turned her head towards him.

"That you'ur from the gang, Yugen." with one word a pose was heard as Bee watched patiently for a reaction.

Hinata slowly began to laugh as it even came to the point where tears began to form at the edge of her eyes. "Your wrong." She said simply as she tried to control her laughter. "That gang doesn't exist anymore. Don't you remember? It got wiped out a year ago."

"No Hinata, you'ur that one that's wrong. Yugen wasn't just wiped out...it was completely erased." His word hit her like bullets as her legs began to fell like jelly. She didn't want to talk about this anymore.

"Ha. Y-Yeah, your right. Silly me."

"Hinata. Do you think it was a coincidence that Yugen and the Jinchuriki gang both got hit in the same year?"

Hinata was collapsing, as her legs began to give out. Though she tried her best to stand, putting all her weight on the door from.

"No."

"So tell me. Why did you convince Naruto and Sasuke to back out? You know we ne-"

"No, we don't!" She finally snapped. "We can't. If they get involved and get hurt or worse...I don't think I could live with myself. This isn't a game against gangs anymore. Where not fighting for territory or money or drugs..." Hinata slowly turned around as she looked Bee straight in the eye and spoke. "...I will be the one to take down Wasuremono, no one else."

- End -

YO! Been a while hasn't it? Well here's a new chapter, hope you like it!

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