Seductive Sound

Author's Note: This was one of my most requested story ideas. So I'm going to give this concept a go. In this story, Sasuke has a rather twisted obsession with Hinata. While it will eventually have a happy ending, the beginning and middle of this story will feature a darker version of Sasuke's character than I have previously written. His twisted obsession will gradually become a more healthy love. It will eventually diverge radically from canon. If any of that bothers you, you might want to leave now. For those of you still here, I hope you enjoy this story and reviews are always appreciated.

Chapter Notation: Sasuke has gone through a lot of trauma. I wouldn't classify him as completely insane in this story. He's playing with a full deck, but the cards are definitely out of order. If you're looking for a well-adjusted Sasuke, this story probably isn't for you. Well at least not for now. Happy reading!

Disclaimer: I own nothing and make no profit off of any of my stories.

Chapter 1

Childhood. That's when it first began. When his obsession first began. Though at the time, Sasuke had been far too young and far too innocent to understand what it meant. How could he? He had only been seven at the time.

"You know, if you were interested Lord Orochimaru would likely encourage you to achieve your second goal." Kabuto smiles at him slyly.

It had all started ironically enough with all things, sunflowers! The irony of that was almost enough to make him laugh. Almost.

It was just after the Massacre. He was in the hospital and had been there for a few days. Already, Sasuke was in danger of screaming at the medics who were trying to 'help' him.

He didn't need their help. There was nothing that they could say that was going to bring his family back. That would erase the image of his once beloved brother looking down on him as he informed Sasuke that he had been the butcher every single member of their Clan! For no reason other to test his own strength!

"S-Sasuke, are you awake?" A timid voice startled him from his thoughts.

One that he faintly recognized as belonging to a girl in the Academy. A Hyuga. Sasuke didn't remember her first name. She was just so quiet that he doubted they had spoken two words to each other before, but those eyes said it all.

She was a Hyuga. The lavender eyed girl was a member of a Clan that was in some ways very similar to his own. One that was based off of Visual Prowess and that was strong and proud. Though admittedly, one that he knew very little else about.

He blinked at the door and nodded. "I'm awake." Normally, he would have told whoever it was to go away, but her voice had been so meek that Sasuke found he didn't have the heart to do so.

The response he received for his efforts was an adorable smile as the girl raced inside his room and placed a vase of sunflowers on his desk. "I h-heard about what happened." She'd gotten him flowers? "I'm really sorry about your family." Yeah. He was too.

For once, it wasn't pity. It wasn't awkwardness. For once, someone had said that and actually meant it in a way that didn't set him off. That fact alone had been enough to temporarily dispel the darkness that constantly haunted his every thought as of late.

"Thanks." He glanced at the flowers. "Why sunflowers though?" Sasuke certainly didn't feel Sunny.

She smiled at him. "Because my father said that when it's raining, the Heavens are crying." He had never really thought about things like that, but to his young mind that sounded like a very profound statement. "So the sunflowers are to remind you that eventually, they'll stop c-crying. The Sun will eventually come out. You're family w-wouldn't want you to be sad f-forever."

It was the logic of a child, but he was a child at the time too. So it was deeply moving, even if he hadn't fully understood why back then. The wallflower was in fact, a sunflower that had yet to blossom it seemed.

That didn't make her kindness any less beautiful to him though. "You're right." Which was probably why Sasuke grabbed the flowers and lightly sniffed them. "They wouldn't want me to cry forever." Their fragrance was pleasant. "So I won't. I'm going to kill him! So he can't hurt anyone else!" That was one promise that he was going to keep! No matter what! Itachi was a monster who had to be destroyed!

Before Hinata could reply to that, Hiashi Hyuga forced his way into Sasuke's hospital room. "Hinata, you can't wander off like that." The scolding would have likely continued, if the Hyuga Patriarch hadn't noticed Sasuke.

It was at that moment, that everything seemed to click into place for him. "I see." He looked down at his daughter. "So that's what you wanted the flowers for." Then the lavender eyed man directed his gaze back towards Sasuke. "I am truly sorry for your loss and apologize, if we disturbed you." And with that, Hiashi escorted Hinata out of the room and likely back home.

"I'm sure that he would." Sasuke barely manages not to roll his eyes. "Though there is no one here worthy of restoring my Clan with."

It was an interesting though. Perhaps, it would be smarter to have a child before the final battle with Itachi. Just in case, the unthinkable happened there would still be another Uchiha out there and his Clan might still survive. It was also impossible though.

Kabuto raises an eyebrow at that. "And why do you believe that?" It was a legitimate question, but Sasuke still snorts at it anyway.

There were two reasons. The first was that most of the women at the Sound were either psychotic or unattractive to him. The second was that they weren't her. They weren't Hinata.

"None of the women in this village remotely interest me." He shrugs.

There was no reason to admit such things to the medic. Kabuto was not his friend. Hell, Sasuke didn't even trust him.

It was hard to trust someone who was poisoning you everyday. Of course, Sasuke understood his reasons. Kabuto was just trying to build up his immunities to such things. That didn't make it any less painful though and it was hard not to hold a grudge.

There was also the fact that Sasuke was at least partially aware of what sort of heinous acts that bespectacled man carried out in the Sannin's name. "Not even one?" That and Kabuto's prodding only disgusted him further.

He knew exactly why the other man was trying to encourage Sasuke to pursue fatherhood early. "Not even one." The sick bastard wanted to breed him.

It was likely that Orochimaru wanted backup vessels for when his body would no longer work for the man. That or worse. While it was hard to imagine worse, Sasuke knew that it was possible. He would never let such fates befall his children.

Not that Orochimaru would be able to stop him in the end, he thinks to himself with a smirk. He'd tear him apart. The Sannin was once one of the strongest ninjas in his generation, but now he was growing weaker by the hour.

"That's such a shame." Kabuto sighs.

For now, Orochimaru was still strong. Strong enough to pose a threat, but that wouldn't be the case for long. The older ninja wouldn't have had him brought here, if he didn't need him.

Orochimaru needed him because he needed a new body and he was obsessed with the Sharingan. Oh Sasuke fully understood the other ninja's obsession with it. Orochimaru was just as fixated on his eyes as he was on the Hyuga Princess. Meaning he would stop at absolutely nothing to get them and Sasuke would one day do the same for his own desires.

The Uchiha shakes his head. "I suppose." Feigning disappointment.

If nothing else, Sasuke had become quite the skilled actor. He had acted everyday at the Academy, after all. Every single day, after Hinata had given him that sunflower.

He pretended that he didn't notice her. It was rather easy to do considering he was constantly dealing with their other peers. Mostly his female classmates. Not that he particularly cared about them, but they were practically obsessed with him for unknown reasons.

Why they didn't understand that they were at best minor annoyances or something to be tolerated, he didn't know. They were not very self-aware, but Hinata was. Hinata was to an almost alarming degree.

"Well you know, if there is no one here that interests you…perhaps we could find someone outside of the Sound." Kabuto smiles at him.

That was the reason why she was so shy. Obviously, his sunflower was worried about how others would perceive her. And make no mistake about it, she was his just as he was hers. (She just didn't know that yet).

So lost in his thoughts was he, that Sasuke almost didn't hear what the medic had said. "You could bring me someone I like?" The thought was an intriguing one.

One that he shouldn't be entertaining. It was wrong. Hinata had no business being anywhere near the Sound, but it was tempting. He could have her with him. He wouldn't have to wait until Itachi was dead.

Of course, she'd be taken away from her family. At least for a time, but Sasuke knew the truth. She was miserable with most of them. Hinata obviously deeply loved her family, but her personality just clashed horribly with that Clan's dynamics.

She was far too gentle for such a calculating Clan. "Of course, we could." Kabuto's ruthless smile mirrors Sasuke's own emotions because that is what he was about to be himself. Ruthless.

Ruthless at pursing what he wanted. Well more specifically who. Really, in the long run she'd be happier.

He'd take care of her and give her the attention that her Clan in general clearly was not giving her. An Heiress shouldn't be that skittish. Hinata was supposedly destined to be the Head of the Hyuga Clan and yet, she had been so shy the last time he saw her.

It had been far too long since he had seen her in person though. "If I asked you to get someone, they couldn't be harmed in the process." The most selfish thing that he had ever done. This would be the most selfish thing that he had ever done, but a part of him didn't care.

"Of course." Kabuto looks far too much like a cat that caught the canary for Sasuke's liking, but that was no matter. "There wouldn't be a point in retrieving her for the purposes of restoring your Clan, if she was too injured to do so." He was right about that much at least.

Sasuke still hated the look on his face. He hated this place, but at least he could have Hinata here. That would make it better and after he killed Itachi (and Orochimaru) everything would be perfect.

"Good." He casts a sideways look at Kabuto. "I want Hinata Hyuga as soon as possible and I want her delivered here without a scratch on her."

For every hair harmed on her head or every bruise, Sasuke would return the favor a thousandfold. That was his future wife and no one was allowed to harm her.

Kabuto to his supreme annoyance appeared rather pleased with his threat. "Excellent." Which made Sasuke want to punch him. "I shall inform Lord Orochimaru at once."

"See that you do." Sasuke nods at him.

This was his chance. His chance to finally make her notice him again. She'd forget all about Naruto soon enough.

It had utterly infuriated him to watch her watch the blonde. Naruto was his best friend and sadly, he couldn't break the bond he felt towards the other ninja. A fact which had only made watching his sunflower's devotion to him all the harder.

Naruto wasn't trying to steal Hinata away from him. He was just completely oblivious to her affections and towards Sasuke's feelings for her. That last part was by design though.

"I will." Kabuto walks out of the room, leaving Sasuke to his thoughts.

No one could know how he felt about her. It hadn't been safe. He wasn't strong enough then to protect her from Itachi, but he would be now. He was close. Sasuke could feel it. It was safe to tell her now. Safe to make her understand.

Hinata was training with her team, back in the Leaf Village. Blissfully unaware of how her life was going to change in only a few short days.

"You're getting a lot better, Hinata!" Kiba grins at her.

She smiles gratefully at him and nods. The bluenette felt that she had gotten a lot stronger since the Chunin Exams, but she didn't know if it would be enough. Naruto was still determined to bring Sasuke back.

There was talk of a Retrieval Mission and she wanted to go on it for a couple of reasons. She wanted to help Naruto and yes, Hinata wanted to help Sasuke.

She thought about him occasionally. People didn't see what the Hyuga Heiress saw when she remembered him. She remembered Sasuke as he had once been. A sad boy who had lost everything.

Kurenai nods approvingly at Hinata, before turning her attention to Shino. "How is your new move coming along?" They were fortunate to have such an attentive Sensei, Hinata muses.

Though that thought only distracts her briefly. Sasuke was the one that she was worried about. He might have been a sad little boy once, but that was no longer the case. At least not on the surface.

He was now a very dangerous ninja. Someone who had been all too eager to abandon the village in pursuit of power. The power to kill Itachi Uchiha. Sasuke was now a creature motivated by hatred and bloodlust. The bloodlust to murder his own brother.

"Very well, Sensei." Shino nods at her. "I should have it perfected shortly."

It was understandable, of course. Itachi had killed most of the Uchiha Clan. Of course, Sasuke would want revenge, but that didn't make any of it any less disturbing.

Hinata had a little sister. She couldn't imagine being in Itachi's or Sasuke's position. Having to avenge your family by killing your sibling or killing nearly your entire family in coldblood. It was enough to make her shiver.

"So what are the chances that we're going on that Retrieval Team?" The Inuzuka grins at Kurenai.

She smiles at him and shakes her head. "I'd say that the chances are very good." That was a relief. Maybe, just maybe they could reason with him.

Sasuke may have the eyes of a demon now, but he had once looked at her with what she was sure was gratitude. It had been a fleeting moment, but maybe it was something. Something that he would remember. Probably not though.

He had broken every single bond that he had ever had for the sake of revenge. Sasuke had easily left his team behind. Why would she ever think that her giving him flowers almost a decade ago would matter to him now? Sasuke Uchiha was not a man who cared about flowers!

In the Sound, Orochimaru watches Kabuto curiously. His most loyal follower certainly seemed pleased about something. This could prove most interesting.

"Kabuto, what is it?" His eyes follow the medic as he walks into the room.

Kabuto's smile was slowly transforming into a smirk. "I have most intriguing news." Well the other man certainly had his attention now. "About Sasuke."

Perhaps, Sasuke had mastered some new Jutsu. It certainly wouldn't be the first time. The boy was a prodigy. Then again, Orochimaru supposed that he should call Sasuke a man now.

While most civilians would have considered him too young for that title, Ninjas were a different story. In theory, by the time you graduated the Academy you had to be ready to kill and in some cases, such as in the Mist Village you had to be ready to kill even before that. Besides, Sharingan or not, Orochimaru wouldn't have taken a complete child as a vessel.

"What about him?" It simply wouldn't be practical.

A child's body probably couldn't handle the stress of the Transference Ritual. It was as simple as that.

Kabuto's smirk never wavers. "It seems that someone has caught his eye." Ah wonder! Nothing would be better than having Sasuke sire a child before the Ritual took place! "Unfortunately, she isn't in the Sound."

Hmm. Yes, that was a bit irritating. No matter though. They'd simply have to bring her to the Sound.

"Did he tell you her name?" A name would be necessary.

His follower nods at the question. "Hinata Hyuga." The medic pauses briefly as though nervous about something. "She will not be easily captured. The woman is the Heiress to the Hyuga Clan."

My, my. His student did have exotic tastes and it appeared that Sasuke aimed high. He might as well have declared he wanted an actual princess for all the difficulties this was going to pose.

"A Hyuga." Still, it did have possibilities. "Very interesting. I presume she is Sasuke's age?" She'd have to be close. Then again, she might be older.

Orochimaru highly doubted that Sasuke would have an interest in someone younger than him. Well at least not much younger. Maybe a few months or even a year would be an acceptable age gap to him.

Kabuto nods as he reaches into his pockets and pulls out a deck of cards. "As you know, I have been filling these out for years." Of course and they had proven themselves enormously useful time and time again.

Orochimaru nods approvingly as he takes Hinata's card from the other man. "Her team possesses a Genjutsu Mistress, an Inuzuka, and an Aburame." That was in addition to Hinata's own Visual Prowess. "Sneaking up on a team like that would be next to impossible."

Hinata's Byakugan, Kiba's enhanced senses and his Ninja Dog, and Shino's insects were all going to pose significant problems to an ambush. Not to mention, their teacher was a Genjutsu Mistress and a formidable Jonin in her own right. This was not going to be easy.

"That's true." Kabuto sighs and shakes his head. "Sasuke has emphasized that he doesn't want her harmed in the slightest." Well that made sense.

If this woman had truly caught his future vessel's eyes to this extent, it was only natural that he'd be protective of her. Was it merely because Sasuke was curious about combining the bloodlines or did he actually have feelings for this one though? It was hard to tell.

"Overwhelming them with numbers and then hitting them with sleeping gas would seem the best bet then." That would knock them out and they could simply take the Hyuga Princess back to the Sound Village. "For now, I want a team observing her daily habits. We need to determine the best time to strike."

Kabuto nods. "Yes, Lord Orochimaru." He turns to head off. "I promise that I won't fail you."

"Good. You never have before." Orochimaru smirks as he watches Kabuto leave. "It would be most unwise to begin doing so now."

Three days later and Hinata couldn't shake the feeling she was being watched. Though every time she looked, she saw nothing. Even when she activated her Byakugan, she saw nothing.

"Well that was easy." Kiba smiles at her as he places his hands behind his head and they continue on their way back to the Leaf.

Hinata nods in agreement. It had been a minor mission. They had to escort a Lord to another village. It had all proceeded smoothly and now, they were only about half a day's journey away from the Leaf and that was if they went at an easy pace.

Shino adjusts his glasses as they continue plowing along. "If we hurry, we could be back before lunch." That was true.

Kurenai was leading the way. "Well there's really no need to hurry." Though they were all about to find out just how wrong the Genjutsu Mistress was about that.

Suddenly, Akamaru starts barking. "Arf! Arf!" The Ninja Dog snarls and bristles at the threat.

Instantly, they were on all on guard as they were ambushed. Her eyes widen. How was that possible?! Her Byakugan had been activated the whole time! How could they have snuck up on tehm!

"Your Byakugan is impressive, but like any Byakugan there is always a blindspot." One of the ninjas smirks.

That's when Shino frowns. "Those are Sound Ninjas!" Indeed. They were!

Hinata recognized some of them from the Bingo Book, but that didn't change the fact that they were outnumbered. Heavily. By a factor of at least three or four to one.

"Very good, Brat." Another smirks. "Not good enough though!"

That's when they all rush at them and it was a flurry of fists, claws, and insects whirling around as Kurenai casts a Genjutsu. What Hinata didn't know was that one was lurking nearby. Camouflaged and waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

"Oh yeah?! Take this!" Kiba slams his fist into the face of a Sound Ninja while Shino's insects swarm them.

Hinata was a flurry of punches. She was locking up as many chakra points as she could and it seemed like Kurenai had a couple of them locked in a Genjutsu. For awhile, she thought they were going to win this battle.

That was until several canisters went flying and all the conscious Sound Ninjas quickly covered their mouth. It was too late though. They had landed and busted open with the dark red gas spreading all around them.

Hinata tries to cover her mouth. She knew that whatever was in that wasn't good. Though she wasn't quite quick enough and neither were her teammates. "A-Arf!" The last thing she was conscious of was Akamaru barking and then everything went black.

"Well they were a lot more trouble than I thought they would be." The Captain shakes his head. "Though Lord Orochimaru did say they would be difficult."

A ninja with shaggy brown hair nods. "Is the girl hurt?" Because he knew that Lord Orochimaru would be displeased if she was.

He why the Sannin wanted her exactly. Though he figured it had something to do with her Byakugan. Either way, it didn't really matter.

One didn't keep Lord Orochimaru waiting. Well unless one was stupid or suicidal. He was neither though!

"Nah." A blonde ninja shakes her head. "Girl is fine. She's a lot tougher than she looks. She must have locked up the chakra points of half our team." Then again, maybe Lord Orochimaru just wanted an easier vessel.

Sasuke could be very difficult. For some reason, the last Uchiha refused to see that he was in the presence of greatness and that it was an honor to be the man's vessel.

So yeah. Kara wouldn't blame the Sannin, if he had decided to trade in a Sharingan for a Byakugan. After all, both were powerful bloodline traits and if the girl was more malleable, all the better.

"That's good." Kaito nods. "Well let's get her back to the Sound." His shaggy brown hair was well everywhere and it almost made Kara giggle.

She nods though as it became apparent they were ready to move onto Stage Two. "Got it!" They had acquired the target. Now all that was left was to bring her back to the Sound and then Orochimaru could figure out how he wanted to deal with her.

With that thought in mind, she scoops up the girl and the Sound Ninjas depart. They leave her teammates laying on the ground. They weren't the targets and by the time they woke up, they would be long gone and not even a Ninja Dog would be able to follow their trail.