I think I forgot to mention this in my previous chapter but this is going to be the last chapter of my story. Whoops. Tee hee. Anyways I made this especially long because one it's the last chapter and two well it has been like a million years since I updated. So enjoy the final chapter everyone.

The tall lean man walked silkily across the patterned streets, his pale complexion contrasted like ivory against the nighttime. No one noticed him; he blended in the crowd perfectly.

It was strange for the most wanted man in Konoha to be walking in the most crowded place in the entire city, yet what was even more bizarre was the genius behind his reasoning. No one ever truly looks at each other in the face in crowded places, though his skin was unusually pale compared to the other citizens he didn't stand out due to the fact that his disguise were the many shoppers and people surrounding him.

A wickedly terrible mad-man walks the streets of Konoha.

He lazily stuffed his hands in his pockets trying to warm them, it was growing increasingly cold lately, no doubt the symptoms of winter.

"Sarutobi's hospital should be around the bend." He whispered silently to himself.

He made sure to stay in the middle of the crowd so that no one on the outside could spot him. He heard from Kabuto that the ANBU had already sent out tracking hounds, those wretched beasts were the best of the best. They were personally trained by Hana Inuzuka, the city's most prestige dog handler in Konoha. They could pick up scents that have been washed by rain, scents that have gone through rivers, and undetectable smells that not even pure bred blood hounds could track down. Orochimaru knew that he was on a time limit, the ANBU are probably hot on his trail. Mixing his scent with all these shoppers wouldn't work out for long.

The cold breeze bit his face with such malice that it felt as if thin knifes were disguised in the docile wind, shredding layers upon layers of skin cells off his face.

Nonchalantly he trotted across the street where the hospital holding her captive stood. He dared not go through the front door; instead he walked around the building hoping to see a window.

Hidden by the lovely velvet known as nighttime, he took his time surveying the building, he didn't know what floor she was on nor did he know what room she was in, but the main point was that she was in that hospital and that was all that Orochimaru needed to know.

The fallen angel Lucifer was smiling down upon him for he soon found a cracked window. He cackled to himself as he slithered in and found himself in storage area, it was spacious and dark, the perfect place to stake out at.

The room itself was quite cold; he could see his breath come out in steamy puffs. Yes, this room was a good place to wait. The walls were large and made of cinder block, they harmonized like talc. The floor was cold like marble and reflected an eerie glow from the dim flickering lights. He searched the room and found a door with bright lights beaming from the cracks, no doubt the entrance into a main passage of the hospital.

The room was littered with numerous instruments of surgery and also many preserved jars filled with hearts, hands, feet, and many organs that not even Orochimaru could recognize.

He walked towards the wall of surgical tools and examined each one very closely, there were scalpels ranging from the size of his finger to the size of his hand. There were metallic hammers and screws ranging to outrageous sizes as well. There was even an assortment of bone cutting saws.

Orochimaru smiled quietly to himself and walked to the other end of the room, sitting on a box labeled chloroform, and then from there he waited.

Hinata Hyuuga, the dead corpse. That sounded so nice to his ears.

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"Gaara Shubaku, how does it feel knowing that you're going to die?" came out his silky voice.

Gaara sat down on his bed with his head cradled between his knees, the chains around his wrists jingling occasionally.

"Shouldn't you be tracking down that bastard?" retorted Gaara, his emerald iris's had grown dull and brittle, the rings around his eyes, if possible, had gotten even darker and sullen. His flaming red hair fell over his eyes, limp and dead. His lovely round cheeks had grown hollow and sickly, when ever he breathed a terrible rattling noise echoed in his lungs, as if someone had dropped a stone in it. He looked like a terrible mess.

Jail had definitely changed this teen.

Itachi stared at him curiously. "Should a murderer really be worrying about someone else's life, Hinata is in my hands now; you ruined your chance the moment you laid your hands on Kin. If you had wanted to protect her there were other ways Shubaku."

Itachi sat nimbly on the other side of the rusted metal bars, watching Gaara for any sort of movement.

"You're not going to save her are you?" whispered Gaara.

Itachi leaned back on his heels and flickered his ruby eyes in different directions.

"Orochimaru is going to wait until the hospital has shut down before he strikes."

Gaara snorted. "What do you want from me, why are you idly waiting for Orochimaru to move? Just because you're deduction skills are good doesn't mean you should be so confident, Hinata is in that hospital by herself, she's suffering silently yet again and all you can do is sit there and taunt me, I'm already as good as dead Uchiha, why don't you use some of this time to help someone who has a chance to live?"

"Dead eh? I don't talk to dead men Shubaku." His response was sly and mocking. Itachi did not bother to mention that Hinata was not in fact alone, she was being taken care of by Sasuke, but such a fact wasn't relevant.

"I don't understand" murmured Gaara.

"What is it that you're so confused about?" Itachi's voice echoed like silver.

"You know that Orochimaru is in that hospital. Why are you still here?" he snarled.

Itachi smirked arrogantly. "He is the only man that I've ever had trouble catching, but that was only due to the fact that he is exceptionally skillful in the art of elusion. But I've already studied him; I only need to look at a man once to know his way of thinking. Orochimaru is in a desperate state right now, he knows he's going to get caught but as his last chance for revenge he wants to kill Hinata Hyuuga. I want to give him false hope, my hounds caught his scent hours after his escape, and my agents have already informed me that he is in the hospital. I only have to say the word and Orochimaru will be shot down like the dog he is."

"You didn't answer my question though, what do you want from me Uchiha?"

Itachi locked his eyes on Gaara and uttered. "You should speak with more respect to me Shubaku; don't you know who I am? I am Itachi Uchiha, ANBU captain of Konoha's most elite and prestige police unit. I can do many things and no one would ever point a finger at me."

Gaara lifted his eyes to meet Itachi's; his sullen face peaked with mild interest.

"Come now let us reason together. Even though your sins are as scarlet I can make them white as snow, and even though they are red like crimson, they will be as wool."

Gaara snorted with a husky voice. "Playing God are we?"

Itachi stood up. "Who said anything about God; this is a matter of men."

Gaara stared at him stricken with horror, his listless emerald eyes sparked with adrenaline, for foreign men slithered their way around Itachi, these men were different, they wore not the recognizable ANBU uniform, nor did they wear any identification badge- a strict accessory that all ANBU had to wear least they face the wrath of the head of the department- no these men were strange.

Gaara's eyes fell on Itachi, this man was planning things behind the blinds of others, he controlled the law hence he controlled justice itself.

"What's going on Uchiha, my time isn't over yet, who are those guys behind you, they aren't ANBU"

Itachi stood up, a dark shadow fell on his eyes, he was dressed in his usual ANBU uniform, his armor, black- the designated color for someone of his ranking- was gleaming like murky water, the deep wrinkles that etched his eyes, giving him a omniscient aura, smoothed out as he gave his men the implied signal.

Gaara immediately sensing that something wasn't right stood up; his eyes were sharp as he backed into the farthest part of the cell, his handcuffs jingled in a mocking tone as he moved.

"Gaara, you are no longer needed here in Konoha."

One of the men next to Itachi opened the door, the miserable piece of metal screamed as the man opened it to the ends of its rusty hinges. He entered the cell in a docile manner; his form was neither tense nor hostile. But his eyes locked in on Gaara as if he were air, something that the man just couldn't grasp.

"What the fuck are you doing Uchiha?" Gaara's hand rattled and shook; his eyes were open allowing the sea-green foaminess of it all to ooze out in shock.

The man suddenly tackled Gaara to the floor, as soon as Gaara was down the rest of the men standing beside Itachi rushed in and refrained Gaara as well.

Gaara seething like a rabid wolf, flew into a paralyzing flee for freedom, yet his legs were crushed together and his arms were wretched down behind his back causing him to howl in pain.

"Uchiha, it's not my time to go. Don't do this" he screamed, his voice shattered like glass, it cut his throat and soon he was spewing out what seemed to be a plea.

"Don't take me away. I was just trying to save her, Uchiha! Don't take me away, she needs me!"

Itachi looked at Gaara, his deep ruby eyes glimmered and twisted off into another direction.

"This is your punishment Gaara, some die and others live. Take it like a man. It's not like you'll never see her again, and besides don't you know all dogs go to heaven." Itachi uttered the phrase as if it were a filthy swear word, he eyes fell on Gaara with indifference.

Gaara's eyes were like that of a wild beast, though his head was pressed again the cool cement of the cell his eyes glowed with lightning, quick and unforgiving, fearful and terrifying. His emerald iris stretched showing off its colorful fleece.

His legs dragged on the floor as the men towed his thrashing body away.

"Uchiha!" His wretched voice was broken and severed, choked and claimed, like a dog taken into the back room, never to see the light of day.

Itachi turned his head towards the teen and waved his farewells.

"Good-bye Shubaku"

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Hinata sat next to Sasuke, her head snuggled in his lap like an infant. If she heard Itachi correct Orochimaru escaped, this fact brought a swelling of happiness in her soul. She was elated that her mother's killer escaped the hands of the law, and even though she was consumed in happiness she knew that everyone else was upset.

Hinata began fiddling with his sleeve. "What do you think will happen to Orochimaru if they catch him?"

Sasuke almost snarled at the name and replied with a stiff drawl. "When they catch him he'll probably get a lethal injection. The ANBU already have plenty of evidence from all the murder's he's done and all the drug trafficking. He's practically a walking dead man."

Hinata flinched at his blunt response and shifted uncomfortably. "Maybe some of the people he killed deserved to die." She murmured.

Sasuke remained silent at her response. "It shouldn't matter, once this whole thing is over you can do whatever you want, I'll take you to all the places you want to see, you've been trapped in this city for too long. You now have the chance to breathe the air of higher places."

Breathe the air of higher places. Such a phrase could never truly exist.

It was getting dark quickly and the night stars filled the sky as if they were created from silver, dwindling and shining like diamonds, yet the hospital was dark and miserable.

Being in the hospital made Sasuke feel as if death was breathing huskily down his neck, a cold shiver ran down his spine.

Why did he get a feeling that something horrible was going to happen?

After a few hours to Sasuke's slight amusement Hinata fell asleep. Her weary tired eyes fluttered and her breath fell as if falling in the deep rhythm of a slow metronome.

The room was eerie; he wondered how Hinata could survive in such quiet and desolate conditions. This place was suffocating and gave you a sense of paranoia, as if someone were watching you.

But Sasuke wasn't sure it was the room, he really did feel as if someone were watching him.

He gently moved Hinata away from his lap and stood up, surveying the room carefully.

Hidan was probably making his rounds, but the hospital was so large and there were so many patients nicely locked in each of their own rooms. So it would be unlikely that anyone other than him should be walking around.

Yet this feeling.

This feeling of uneasiness and awareness, why does it throb in his heart so badly, calling and screaming his name shrilly, warning him.

He walked towards the door and opened it, the hallways outside were dark and silent.

It was so quiet.

He stepped out of the room into the abyss known as the hallway. There he walked to the end, where the hallway split into two, forming a 'T' shaped structure. He couldn't see much, the black velvety darkness covered every corner. Yet the feeling of being watched still didn't leave him. He continued down the hallway, his onyx eyes bled red, they were piercing and hawk-like watching for any sort of movement.

Then as if lightning had struck him he was slammed against the wall. A searing pain ran through his hand and ran up his arm; warm blood began gushing out of him, trickling down to the ends of his fingers. It all happened so quick that he did not even realize that his hand was nailed to the wall with a six inch long scalpel.

Sasuke howled in pain groping the darkness for the person who had stabbed him. But the darkness was lethal; he could hardly see a thing. Then as if speaking of the devil Orochimaru's form appeared in front of him, his silhouette outlined in the dark hallway.

"Be a good boy and die, you wouldn't want to live long enough to hear the Hyuuga's screams now would you?"

Sasuke flinched as he tried to attack Orochimaru, but his hand was still nailed against the wall and only brought a thriving wave of pain if he tried to dislodge it.

"You fucking bastard don't you dare touch her, I'll kill you" snarled Sasuke, his vision was growing blurry from the loss of blood and his head suddenly began feeling dizzy.

Orochimaru cackled wickedly and stabbed Sasuke with another scalpel he had hidden in his pocket; he lodged the medical tool into Sasuke's shoulder earning a wondrous bloody scream that echoed like magic in the hallways.

"I'm not the one dying on a wall am I Uchiha, that brother of yours put me through a lot of trouble I'm just returning the favor."

Orochimaru laughed deeply in his throat and began walking away. "I better get going now, my job isn't over yet."

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Meanwhile in the room Hinata groggily woke up, she rubbed her eyes trying to focus, it was already late. The small clock near her bed told her so.

She thought she heard the door to her room open, the familiar clicking sound had woken her up.

She searched for Sasuke with panicked eyes; she could have sworn that she had been sleeping on his lap.

She scanned the room with her soft eyes and stood up walking towards the door, after rattling the handle a bit she found to her disappointment that it was locked.

Wait… didn't Hidan leave the door unlocked? Did Sasuke lock it? Why would he leave though?

Hinata called out Sasuke's name hoping he had just gone to the bathroom. But she got no reply.

"Ku ku ku"

The cackle was quiet and made Hinata almost jump out of her skin. She turned around but couldn't focus on what made that sound. The room had no windows and made it almost impossible to distinguish any form with the little to almost no light in her room.

"Sasuke?"

She heard the faint laughter yet again, it echoed off the walls in a trance-like way.

"Come closer Hyuuga"

The voice hit her like a ton of bricks; it was the voice of her savior, the man who slew the harlot devil known as her mother.

"Orochimaru?"

The voice growled.

"No one's going to save you Hyuuga. You're trapped. Trapped like a filthy rat."

Hinata flinched as she heard the viciousness in his voice; it was too confusing as to why he was speaking to her in such a malicious tone.

Hinata heard quick movements on the other side of the room and stepped away from them.

Her heart was beating frantically; it was as if her life was being played on rewind. She was going to get hurt yet again, but this time it would be by the man who saved her life.

In the little light that was in her room she saw a glimmer, the scent of blood was smeared all over the floor. Instinct immediately told her that this man was anything but a savior, perhaps she had been mistaken about this man.

Perhaps instead of a savior fighting a devil it could have been a devil fighting a devil.

Sweat trickled down her back, tingling her spine in a most terrifying manner.

His form was moving closer, tall and lanky, eerie and miserable.

Then before she could react he lunged at her. The air in her lungs rushed out and her ribs groaned in suppression as he tackled her to the floor.

Adrenaline rushed into her blood screaming for her to fight, so she clawed at his face, thrashing her way from under his body.

He hissed at her attacks and lifted himself a little to escape her feisty counterattack.

He reached for her throat and began strangling her. He could feel her kneeing him with such a brute force that he was forced to loosen his grip. Her small petite hands were gripping his own with all the force she had, her nails impaling his skin until she drew blood.

She was no longer going to take a beating lying down. If he wanted to kill her so badly then he had to earn his right to kill. She wasn't going to be a meek girl letting every person with a fist in their hand beat her.

Orochimaru backhanded her causing Hinata to be slightly disoriented; black dots littered her vision temporarily stunning her.

But her hesitation gave Orochimaru an opening, one that he took with open arms.

Hidden inside his clothes Orochimaru reached for the last medical tool he had stolen from the storage room, a gaudy looking saw ten inches in length.

"Time to die Hyuuga"

Hinata rolled over barely escaping his swipe by the skin of her teeth. She got up and bolted towards the door, but the blood on the floor caused her to slip and she fell harshly on her knee.

Gritting her teeth she turned around swiped yet another slash from his saw, but this time he managed to knick her and with a yelp she clutched her arm, the thorny edges of the saw ripped her skin apart giving her blood all the rush it needs to spew from her arm and drip down mixing her together with the blood already on the floor.

"Stay still!" he snarled. He was about to step towards her but he suddenly fell down; it seems he also slipped from the red hindrance oozing all over the floor.

The saw flew out of his hands and struck the door with a heavy thud. Hinata seized the opportunity and using her quick reflexes she bolted towards the door with an animal like movement clutching the saw with a fierce grip. With it she slashed at the door handle cutting it with the power of a saw that can cut through a skull as if it were butter.

The metal sparked and shrilly screamed forcing the door to open.

Orochimaru who was already up threw himself at her trying futilely to grab her leg before she ran out. But he was already too late, she ran full force out of the room, saw in hand.

Orochimaru sprinted after her, only a few feet away. Deciding to take the risk he threw himself at her again and this time he managed to take her down full force.

"You just don't know when to give up do you" he growled. His thin bony fingers wrapped around her hand trying to separate her from the saw.

But before Orochimaru could even blink he was thrown off her with such a brute force that his lungs rattled and shook.

He flew several feet away and howled in anger at the face staring back at him. Sasuke stood in front of him, bleeding from his wounds as if there was no tomorrow.

"You're still alive!?" howled Orochimaru. Sasuke took the saw from Hinata's hand with out warning and fling it at Orochimaru as if he were one of those carnival men, throwing knives at the person tied to a wheel, screaming in terror.

The saw struck Orochimaru right at his shoulder; it hit the exact spot where Orochimaru had stabbed Sasuke. The precision was terrifyingly accurate; one would expect nothing less from the brother of Itachi.

Orochimaru screamed in agonizing pain, before anymore blood left his body he immediately dislodged the saw, howling in hell like anguish. he pressed his hand over his wound as he stood up.

Hinata still recovering from the harsh tackle to the floor gaped in horror at Sasuke. His clothes were drenched in blood, one of his arms looked limp and severed, the ruby blood dripped off his finger tips falling on Hinata's feet. He was shaking and his face was covered in a cold sweat, he looked paler than usual and his breaths were coming out in wheezes.

Hinata trembled silently as she watched him fall to the floor with a soft majestic thud; it was like watching a mighty hart being shot down.

"S-s-sasuke?"

She crawled towards him wanting to throw up at the mere sight of all the blood cloaking his body.

His eyes were open and glazed. "Go find Hidan; he should be monitoring one of the other hospital wings. Run and don't look back you got it?"

Hinata opened her mouth to argue but Sasuke suddenly snarled at her. "Run stupid girl, quick before he starts chasing you, I'll hold him back. Get Hidan now!"

Sasuke pushed himself off the floor it was a sad sight indeed. His brows were knitting together and even more blood rushed out from the muscle strain.

"I'm not going to die Hinata, who else would put up with you?" he rasped out a feeble chuckle then gave her head a light rap.

"Now hurry!"

Hinata rushed from Sasuke with another surge of adrenaline and dashed towards the end of the hallway, keeping her eyes straight, never looking back.

She sprinted until her lungs blazed with fire and her legs whimpered for mercy. All of the hallways were confusing and only led to more hallways. All of the doors looked the same and she couldn't tell whether she was taking the right route to where Hidan was.

Suddenly without realizing it she ran right into the armored body of the infamous ANBU squad captain Itachi Uchiha.

"I-i-itachi... Sasuke, he's … and Orochimaru" she could barely breathe, one of the ANBU squad member's grabbed on to her as she almost collapsed on the floor.

Itachi let her catch her breath; his eyes weren't surprised from her frightening countenance.

"Calm down Hinata, quick I need you to tell me where Sasuke is" Itachi's eyes were eager and cool.

Hinata began shaking and tried telling Itachi what was happening. "Sasuk-k-e he's bleeding… Orochimaru has a knife… quick! Sasuke! Sasuke's bleeding, there's so much blood, help him"

Itachi gripped her shoulders. "Did Orochimaru attack Sasuke?"

Hinata nodded her head; the shock of her situation was sinking in like an anvil. She didn't even notice the small crooked smile twisting around Itachi's face nor did she hear the hushed chuckle that escaped his lips.

Itachi turned around facing his men. "Men! the convict is attacking another civilian, you are to hold your power until I say so. Once the civilian is out of harms way you are free to fire at will."

His squad grunted in unison and awaited orders.

"Gekko take your sub unit and take the east corridor, I will take the rest and take the direct route. Orochimaru is armed and we do not want to agitate him until Sasuke is taken care of. Now move!"

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Sasuke trembled on the floor watching as Orochimaru finished taking the saw out of his shoulder. It was almost impossible to distinguish his form anymore; he lost too much blood, at the rate that he was going he would definitely die in the next three minutes if no one came to his aid.

No longer having the ability to move Sasuke stayed sprawled on the floor watching Orochimaru with demon eyes as he began standing up.

Sasuke flinched as he heard Orochimaru release a demonic cackle.

"You just had to be a hero didn't you? I was just going to chop all her limbs off and let her bleed to death but now I'm pissed off, I think I'm going to play with her a little before I kill her, her mother was a whore after all, surely some of those genes should run through her daughter. KU KU KU! How about it Uchiha, what if I drag her body over here and screw her right in front of you? I think that sounds like a fun idea. BA HA HA HA HA!"

Sasuke gritted his teeth at the taunt. Hinata should have found Hidan by now, as long as she was safe he could care less.

Orochimaru limped his way towards Sasuke and kicked him on his shoulder, earning a large portion of his blood to splatter all over the floor. Sasuke coughed and wheezed at the kick but continued to keep his consciousness.

His eyes drifted to the end of the hallway where he saw a familiar white form.

"I came here hearing the pleasurable sound of someone screaming and all I find is this bastard huh?"

Orochimaru turned his head towards the direction of the voice. Hidan stood there radiating, his skin was eerie and shiny and his hair was slick back in its usually tidy style. His hands were stuffed in his white lab coat in a lazy manner. The mere visage of him made him appear ghost-like.

He looked at Orochimaru with disgusted eyes. "The only dead people I want to take care of in this hospital are the crazy ones; I don't lay my hands on the sane corpses catch my drift Orochimaru. Touch the Uchiha anymore and I'll be forced to stop you."

Orochimaru lifted his lips in a snarl and gave Sasuke one final kick before he fled off into the opposite direction.

Hidan smiled wickedly and dashed after him. He cackled madly "I was hoping that fucker would do that."

He took out a needle from his pocket as he passed Sasuke.

Orochimaru was about to turn the corner into a different hallway, yet before he even got the chance a rain fall of bullets sliced through his body.

"Fucking Uchiha! You ruined all the damn fun" snarled Hidan, he slowed down to a stop as Itachi and his squad came around the corner dragging a dead Orochimaru like a stiff deer.

Hidan quickly hid the needle of cyanide back in his pocket and crossed his arms together.

"Sorry Hidan, Orochimaru is a convicted felon his ass is mine." Smirked Itachi.

Itachi ordered his men to call an ambulance and walked towards Sasuke's body with a hasty rhythm in his step.

"Hidan can you do anything for him"

Itachi removed his black ANBU jacket and ripped it up into pieces with his knife then he wrapped up Sasuke's wounds and applied pressure to his shoulder stopping any more blood from escaping his body.

Hidan ran his fingers through his hair and chuckled "I can put him out of his misery if that's what you're saying"

Itachi looked at Hidan with lethal eyes that sent a wave of fear through his spine.

Hidan chuckled nervously. "I was just kidding you fucking wuss. I have a bottle of plasma pills around here somewhere." Hidan searched his pockets and took out a deep red bottle and gave three pills to Itachi.

"Put them in his mouth and he'll be fine until the medics come"

Itachi did as instructed and faced Hidan. "Hinata is in shock. She's with one of my men in the south corridor. You're her doctor, fix her."

Hidan growled silently to himself still angry that he didn't part of the action and stalked off looking for the emotionally scarred teen.

He trotted off towards the hallways taking many numerous confusing turns until he finally reached his patient. She was held with her arm twisted around her back by the ANBU member, thrashing and screaming.

"What's going on here?" asked Hidan, his brow raised at the masked man restraining the Hyuuga.

"She was resisting and began getting hostile towards me so I restrained her sir." Responded the masked squad member, he seemed agitated that he missed all of the action as well.

Hidan sighed loudly and ran his fingers through his hair in annoyance. "I got it from here; your captain wants you all to return."

The man let go of the hissing Hyuuga and gave his thanks to Hidan.

After waiting until the man was beyond sight Hidan walked towards Hinata and kneeled down to eye level. She was shaking and grabbed his sleeve.

"Hidan, what happened?! Is Sasuke okay?"

Hidan rolled his eyes and took out an injection from his pocket; it was a dose of morphine. She was clutching her arm which was bandaged for her no doubt the work of that ANBU member that was forced to watch over her. He could tell that she was ready to collapse any moment from the pain.

He burrowed his brows as he injected her. His face, if possible was paler than usual, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"You know that Itachi is one messed up piece of shit"

Hinata's frantic breathing steadied down to normal as he was talking, the morphine ran through her blood like an elixir. He looked at Hinata watching as her eyes began glazing.

"Since you're drugged and probably won't remember a thing I say I suppose I should tell you this…"

"…according to the law, if a convicted felon has caused an injury to someone while loose the ANBU have the right to shoot him down on the spot. Itachi knew this fact and purposefully allowed Orochimaru to mess up Sasuke. Itachi had his squad here at the hospital only minutes after Orochimaru entered the storage room. He could have easily caught him and put his ass back in jail. But Itachi was pissed at Orochimaru, he wanted his own revenge against Orochimaru, in the beginning he had purposefully put him in the shittiest cell because he knew that Orochimaru was going to escape. Then he brought Sasuke down here because he knew that Sasuke would do anything for you, Orochimaru would have to hurt Sasuke in order to get to you and that was exactly what Itachi wanted because once Orochimaru hurts a civilian Itachi can shoot him and kill him."

Hinata nodded at his rant, her mind had gone blank the moment the morphine hit her blood stream, she saw his lips move in a grave manner and even saw the blurred image of his scared trembling lips.

"I know one thing for sure, Itachi Uchiha is one motherfucker you don't want to mess with, when someone messes with Itachi… they die."

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Two weeks later.

"Ouch Hinata, don't touch that" Sasuke sat down on his bed hissing as Hinata was courteously trying to puff up his pillow. His entire left arm was bandaged up from the collar bone right down to his finger tips. It was his second week in the Konoha Hospital and he was in an extremely irritable mood due to the fact that the hospital food tasted like air and that he wasn't allowed to get up because of danger of opening his stitches.

Hinata who had been politely released from the mental hospital at the demand of her father had just been released from the hospital herself. Her only wound was the gash that the now deceased Orochimaru had given her with his gaudy saw.

"Hinata we're going to be leaving soon, Uncle will be waiting downstairs" came the voice of her cousin Neji.

After the incident two weeks ago her father Hiashi has been clinging to her like a flea does a dog. He had gotten so angry at the mental hospital for allowing the mad man to enter that he immediately took her out and on his knees asked her forgiveness.

So Hinata formerly forgave him, he is now sitting down stairs with a rather lethal looking black eye. Although after she punched him she felt so bad and apologized over and over again, which to her own surprise only made him laugh.

"I'll be downstairs in a while." She answered apologetically.

Neji nodded his head and closed the door behind him not before glaring at Sasuke. After Hinata made sure that Neji was completely gone she looked at Sasuke.

"So we'll leave tonight and get back by morning right?"

Sasuke straightened his back. "Yea, the beach is really close to here, if we sneak out I can get us a ride there, we'll be back before they even realize we're gone. But don't go telling that cousin of yours, I think he already suspects something got it?"

Hinata nodded her head cheerfully. "Got it"

They both turned their heads as a loud knocking on the door startled them.

"Oh little brother, I bring you gifts" Itachi strolled in carrying a basket of red roses and an enormous bear.

Sasuke sighed loudly and gripped his blanket. "Who the hell said I wanted roses and a bear, do I look like I'm five." Barked Sasuke.

Itachi ignored Sasuke's rant and strolled over to Hinata. "Conceited as ever aren't you little brother, I never said these gifts were for you."

Itachi smiled gently at Hinata and laid the gifts at her feet. "Happy birthday Hinata"

He wrapped his arms around her and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips.

Sasuke enraged that his own brother was kissing Hinata right in front of him grabbed the vase of flowers that Hiashi had bought for him and flung it at Itachi barely missing him by a tenth of a centimeter.

"Now, now little brother I was only giving her a birthday kiss, Mother gives them to you on your birthdays no need to misunderstand. By the way Sasuke your aim is getting impeccable that one I could barely dodge, your spot on the ANBU is definitely going to be final isn't it."

Hinata still in his arms was only slightly confused. "It's my birthday?"

Itachi looked at her with curious eyes. "According to your birth certificate it is, don't you know when your own birthday is?"

Hinata shook her head gently. "No, I didn't have the privilege to know"

Itachi's eyes widened. "Well you better go and tell your family I'm sure they'd want to go and celebrate it with you."

Itachi led Hinata out the door hastily and slammed it shut. He waited until her presence was completely away from the door until he decided to speak.

"Deidara tells me that you're going on a little trip to the beach" taunted Itachi.

Sasuke growled to himself. I knew I shouldn't have told Deidara where we were going, as soon as I get a hold of him I'm going to…

"Just don't do anything too crazy, you can have sex with her after your wounds are healed" chuckled Itachi.

Sasuke gritted his teeth and held back the blush that was rushing towards his face. "I'm just taking her to see the beach you fucking pervert."

"Sure whatever" sighed Itachi, he sat down on the seat adjacent to Sasuke.

It grew quiet for a moment.

"You sent him back to Suna didn't you?"

Itachi looked at Sasuke with wide eyes. "Excuse me?"

Sasuke looked up at the ceiling. "His banishment from Suna ended a month ago didn't it? Gaara was sent back."

Itachi leaned back on the chair. "I really don't know what you're talking about Sasuke. Gaara is an escaped felon; he broke out and is probably in a different country by now."

Sasuke snorted. "That's a load of bull."

Itachi smiled quietly to himself. "Are you implying that I, Konoha's ANBU captain would abuse my power all for the sake of that red headed demon's life."

Sasuke sighed loudly. Tch… this guy.

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"Sasuke the water is really cold" yelped Hinata. She scurried out of the water holding her bandaged hand high in the air, Sasuke had wrapped it in plastic so that it wouldn't get wet and lead the nurses at the hospital to believe that they did anything suspicious like sneak out of the hospital in the middle of the night to go to the beach.

Sasuke chuckled as he watched Hinata run away from the waves hollering about how cold the water is.

"Well for one its December so of course the water is going to be cold, get away from the waves before all of your clothes gets soaked."

Before he could even finish his sentence Hinata was overcome by a wave and was knocked off her feet drenching her clothes completely.

"Cold! Cold! Sasuke it's really c-c-cold."

Sasuke got up from his comfortable sandy spot and walked towards her with a towel in his good arm. "See didn't I tell you. Thank God I told you to bring extra clothes I knew something like this was going to happen." Though his voice was stern his face was juvenile and just a bit cheerful.

Under the half moon Sasuke wrapped the towel around Hinata scolding her gently. Then to her surprise he lifted her up until her feet dangled inches above the ground.

"Didn't I tell you you'd be breathing the air of higher places?"

Hinata laughed and entwined her arms around his neck as he placed her down. Even though she was soaking wet in a beach in the coldest month of December Hinata could only feel warmth as their lips met in a fiery kiss.

The End.

Thanks to all you guys who stuck with me until the end. Muchos gracias a todos.

I will consider writing an epilogue but that all really depends on how my Muse is behaving. I'm sure you're all thinking 'gosh now that Misery is done with her story she's probably going to focus more of her Stockholm Syndrome story' well WRONG. I've wanted to write a SasukexHinata teacherxstudent story and I have already written the first chapter, so now that I'm officially finished with this story I am going to start adding my new story. This story will have less drama (boo hoo, my precious drama) but in replace for it the atmosphere is going to be lighter and its going to have more of a comedy tone to it.

P.S. Itachi uses a quote from the bible, if anyone can tell me where it is found I will give you a cookie! …. It looks like this (:::) … doesn't that look yummy!

-misery.loves.black.sheep-

PLEASE REVIEW (The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.- I don't know it just sounded cool-)