"The Ring"
*creeeekkk*
The door opened and a man showed up with a frightening face.
"Hinata, come with me," Rengo called out to her.
"Yes," Hinata replied. She stood up from the chair she was sitting on and followed Rengo. She was still under Rengo's genjutsu.
They made a stop at the door. Rengo looked at her before opening it.
"What is this place?" Hinata asked, still expressionless.
"My lab," Rengo answered.
"A lab? For what?" Hinata added.
"For my plans to rule the world. I will be the one to fulfill my elder brother's legacy and to continue that bastard Kido's unfinished business." Rengo explained.
Hinata kept silent.
"Since Kido and Magire failed to fulfill their duties of making a drug out of the Uchiha's Sharingan and the tailed beast drug, I will be taking over them and..." Rengo paused and gazed at Hinata's face.
"And your eyes... your eyes will be very beneficial to my plans." He added.
Hinata kept her expressionless face like she had heard nothing.
"Lord Sixth sent Ro and Soku ahead to investigate Rengo's whereabouts. They were my subordinates when I went to the Land of Silence to discover the secrets of the missing ninjas after the war. I am pretty sure that they could bring Lord Sixth the pieces of information about Rengo and his motives for kidnapping Hinata." Shikamaru reassuring information to be unfolded by the Anbu members.
They were heading to one of Rengo's hideouts that Sai gathered from his investigation. He discovered that Rengo had different hideouts in the Land of Fire and he also had subordinates who were working with him.
"Yeah, and I can't wait to smack that bastard's face." Naruto declared.
"Calm down Naruto. Don't let your emotions get in the way." Sai commented.
"I can't promise you that Sai 'til I get a hold of Hinata's hands," Naruto said.
Sai and Shikamaru stared at each other. They knew Naruto was serious and wasn't calm.
"Welcome back, Lady Hanabi." A servant to the Hyuga Clan welcomed Hanabi as she came home after being hospitalized for three days.
"Thank you." She said in a low voice. She immediately walked towards her room leaving her father behind. She paused when she stepped on something. She moved her foot and saw something glittering on the floor. She looked at it and then picked it from the floor.
"A ring?" She muttered confusedly.
"Are you going to kill me?" Hinata asked Rengo and faced him.
"No, of course not," Rengo answered.
"I just want your eyes, make a drug out of them, and make money from it." He added and gave her a grin.
Hinata's eyes were wide open. She grabbed her head.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!" She screamed while still grabbing her head.
She felt pain, her head hurts.
"Are you okay?! Oy!" Rengo was a bit worried. Hinata kept screaming like she was in agony.
"Maybe it is the effect of genjutsu in her mind," Rengo muttered.
After a while, Hinata felt dizzy and fainted. Rengo caught her and she laid down on his arms.
"Soon... Princess Hinata, your eyes will be all mine." Rengo said and laughed like a devil.
Naruto, Sai, and Shikamaru stopped near one of Rengo's hideouts. They kept themselves hidden in the bushes.
"It's quiet," Naruto muttered.
"Sai..." Shikamaru called out to Sai. Sai nodded. He grabbed a scroll from his bag and pulled out a brush tinted with ink.
"Ninja Art: Super Beast Scroll."
Sai made his drawings move like real moving objects. Tiny mice appeared and he made them ran towards the building.
"Let's wait and see..." Shikamaru blurted.
After a while, the tiny mice came back and later splashed like water staining the ground with black ink.
Sai shook his head telling his comrades that nobody was inside the building.
"Looks like they had abandoned that building already," Shikamaru stated.
"Then let's proceed to the next target location. We should not waste any time." Naruto commanded and jumped over the tree.
"Oi! Oi! I think I am the captain of this mission?" Shikamaru said.
"Whatever. Shikamaru, I know you know what I feel." Naruto said without turning his head to him. Shikamaru let out a sigh.
"Yeah! Yeah!" Shikamaru said while shaking his head. Both Sai and Naruto followed him and immediately head towards the next location.
"Hanabi, the Hokage wants to talk to you," Hiashi said calling out his daughter outside her room.
Hanabi walked towards the doorway and stopped in front of the door.
"What does the Hokage want from me?" She asked her father.
"Maybe he wants to ask you things about that incident for their investigation," Hiashi replied.
Hanabi's face saddened by the thought of that scenery.
"Big sister..." she murmured.
"Hanabi, I'm glad that you have recovered fast and looking all right now. I am here to ask permission if I can get some information from you about the incident during the time you got injured and about Hinata's abduction." Kakashi said. The two of them were inside a room. Kakashi wanted everything to be a secret.
Hanabi's expression did not change. She still had a sad and gloomy face. She looked at Kakashi's face who was patiently waiting for her response. She closed her eyes and once opened them and faced Kakashi.
"What do you want to know?" Hanabi asked.
Kakashi sat properly and cleared his throat.
"Well, who stabbed you? Was it the enemy?" Kakashi asked.
Hanabi shook her head. Kakashi was surprised by her response.
"Wha-What do you mean?" He was confused by Hanabi's answer.
"There was no one beside big sister," Hanabi said.
Kakashi's forehead wrinkled.
"It was big sis who attacked me. She's not my sister. Big sister wouldn't do such cruelty to me." She revealed. She almost teared up. She left Kakashi in shock. He then changed his expression into a calm and serious one. He already knew what happened.
"I see. That's all I want to hear from you Hanabi. Thank you for cooperating with me. Get some rest." He said while smiling at her.
"By the way, Lord Sixth..." she muttered.
"What is it?" Kakashi asked.
Hanabi took something from her pocket and dropped it on the table.
"A ring?" Kakashi said.
"I found it here inside the house. Exactly at the right side of the place where I was stabbed. I don't know from whom it was but, I wish it could help you with your investigation." She added.
Kakashi picked the ring from the table and put it in his pocket.
"Thank you for this Hanabi," Kakashi said.
"Ninja Art: Super Beast Scroll!" Sai muttered. New mice appeared from the scroll. They were Sai's drawings that he had given life using his own chakra. He dispersed them to look for the old building in front of them. The second target location.
"This is strange. Nobody's around in this area. They could have also abandoned this place." Naruto said.
"Shhh. Please be patient Naruto until those mice came back." Shikamaru told him. It's obvious that Naruto was being impatient. He was so eager to rescue Hinata.
Something bad might happen to her if we don't move fast. He thought.
He then remembered what Rengo had said to him.
"Hinata will play a very important role in my plans..."
Naruto gritted his teeth after remembering those words of Rengo. Shikamaru saw how he clenched his fist. Shikamaru realized that Naruto was covered by anger at the moment.
"Naruto..." Shikamaru called out for him. He did not face Shikamaru.
"Calm yourself. We can't afford to fail this mission. We can not..." Shikamaru said. Sai was watching them.
"I know that." There was a fit of anger in Naruto's voice.
The mice Sai sent to investigate inside the building came back and still, nothing was there. They moved on to the next and last location.
"Now Hinata, follow me. We need to start the surgery as soon as possible." Rengo said.
"What are you planning on doing with me?" Hinata asked.
"I want your eyes as the replacement for the Sharingan. I will make a drug out of them and sell them to big organizations around the world. I will make money out of those drugs and I will create an army that is comparable to those of the Five Great Nations. You, you Princess Hinata of the Hyuga Clan is the answer to our plans." Rengo said with an evil face and laughed.
"No. No way..." Hinata made two steps backward.
"Don't worry Princess Hinata, together we will rule this world and we will take down the Five Great Nations using the power of your eyes," Rengo said while laughing.
Hinata turned her back to him and aimed to run away but her head suddenly hurt. She fell on her knees and screamed because of the pain. Her eyes widened while she was grabbing her head.
"Naruto..." she muttered.
"Naruto..." she kept calling Naruto's name. Tears flowing on her cheeks. Rengo grabbed her by her hand forcing her to stand up. She was resisting but he was too strong for her.
"You are weak. Look at you, you don't even stand a chance against me. You always stand behind every one. They always walk ahead of you. You do not deserve to walk beside your beloved Naruto because you are too weak. You see, nobody acknowledges you. So follow me and I will make you strong. We will make them kneel down and beg for your power." Rengo said making Hinata uneasy. He was manipulating her. Darkness slowly covering her heart.
"It's all in your eyes, don't get so down on yourself. You are strong..." Hinata remembering Naruto's words.
She kept on resisting Rengo's words.
"Stop resisting Princess. You don't have any options left but to follow my orders." Rengo said while forcibly dragging her into the bed.
"Stop it. Let go of me." Hinata was still resisting. Two men entered the room and helped Rengo to stop her movements. Rengo stabbed her with a drug and she fell unconscious in his arms.
"Do the surgery as soon as possible. We need her eyes. So take care of them." He commanded.
"Yes Sir." The two men said simultaneously.
"And where do you think you are going?" Rengo was shocked upon seeing a blonde guy in front of him.
"You are..." Rengo muttered while trembling.
"Yes, I am Naruto Uzumaki and I will definitely kick your ass for taking away my Princess, you bastard!"
"Lord Sixth, this is Ro and Soku reporting," Ro said behind the Hokage's door.
"Please come in," Kakashi replied.
The two entered the room.
"Please tell me about the status of your investigation," Kakashi said.
"We have discovered that this Rengo was working with the former Anbu, Kido and the man named Magire." Ro started.
Kakashi was surprised by the information he was hearing.
"Kido and Magire, those guys..." Kakashi muttered.
"They were the guys who wanted to make a drug out of the tailed beast chakra and the Sharingan. I'm pretty sure you already know what we are saying." Soku added.
"Yes. I see now. Those guys failed to fulfill their goals and Rengo is trying to revive and accomplish it now using the Byakugan by kidnapping Hinata." Kakashi said.
The two nodded in response to his statement.
"H-How did you..." Rengo muttered with a trembling voice.
"How did we knock your men out?" Shikamaru said appearing behind Naruto. Giants were following him. They were Sai's drawings.
"The hell..." Rengo muttered.
"Naruto, leave this Rengo to us and save Hinata," Shikamaru said.
"Ah.. I'm counting on you two." Naruto said and rushed towards Hinata.
"Damn it!" Rengo muttered.
"Hey, we are your opponent so leave Naruto alone," Shikamaru told Rengo. Rengo gave them a sour look while gritting his teeth.
"Leave Hinata alone, you bastards!" Naruto shouted at them. The two men were holding a scalpel. Naruto fought them with Taijutsu.
Shikamaru was using his shadow to capture Rengo.
"So you're using a shadow technique. Well, let's see then." Rengo said.
"Sai, back me up," Shikamaru told Sai.
"Yes, sure," Sai replied.
"Ninja Art: Super Beast Scroll," Sai shouted and two tigers appeared in the scene.
"Heh-" Rengo smirked. He threw kunais with explosive tags trying to escape.
"You idiot. You can't run away from us." Shikamaru said. They then followed them.
Naruto was still fighting those two men. He was being cautious not to hurt Hinata who was sleeping on the bed, so he was not using any techniques other than his Taijutsu skills.
"Hinata!" Naruto said when Hinata was slowly getting consciousness.
"Na-Naruto..." she murmured.
"Thank goodness you're safe!" Naruto said and hugged Hinata.
Hinata was slightly blushing and she somehow felt his warmth that melts her heart. She was very happy.
"This is the warm I was missing the whole time. I was feeling so cold. I was so scared. Thank you for saving me, Naruto." Hinata said while crying.
Naruto grabbed her face and wiped her tears. He looked at her in the eyes and kissed her forehead.
"So glad you're here in my arms again. I won't let you go anymore." Naruto said.
"Hmm. Hmmm." Shikamaru cleared his throat.
"I think we should head back to the village soon. Hinata needs proper medication and these guys over here need to be punished." Shikamaru said while pointing to the men tied together.
"Yeah," Naruto said.
"Let's go, Hinata," Naruto said while asking for her hand. Hinata accepted it and tried to stand up but before she could fully stand, her knees trembled and fell on Naruto's arms.
"Are you okay Hinata? Can you stand up?" Naruto worriedly asked her.
"My knees are still trembling maybe it's still the effects of the drug that was injected in me," Hinata said.
Without saying anything, Naruto carried Hinata in front of everyone. Hinata was surprised that it made her face turned to red.
"Alright! Let's go! Naruto shouted and they returned home.
Hospital
"You guys!" Hinata said with a smile on her face.
"How are you feeling Hinata?" Naruto said while walking towards her. Shikamaru and Sai were behind him.
"Yo, Hinata!" Shikamaru said. Sai just smiled at her.
"I'm feeling okay now. Sakura said I will be discharged by tomorrow." Hinata said while smiling.
"I see. When you're fully recovered let's grab some ramen." Naruto said.
"Yes, sure," Hinata replied.
"Yo!"
"Lord Sixth." They said in unison.
"What's the matter?" Shikamaru asked with twitching eyebrows.
"I was really bothered," Kakashi said.
"Bothered about what?" Sai asked.
"About the thing Hanabi gave me. She said it could help us in the investigation about Hinata's abduction but actually, that thing has nothing to do with it." Kakashi said.
"Hanabi?" Hinata muttered.
"What was it though?" Naruto asked with a furrowed eyebrows.
Kakashi grabbed something from his pocket.
"Here!" Kakashi said and showed them the ring Hanabi gave him.
"A ring?" They said in unison.
"Wait..." Naruto muttered.
"Huh?!" They murmured.
"That is... that is..." Naruto said while sweating badly. He realized that ring was supposed to be a marriage proposal to Hinata.
"Are you okay Naruto?" Shikamaru asked.
He remembered he might have dropped it back in the Hyuga house. He almost forgot about it.
"That ring is mine!" Naruto said and he instantly grabbed it from Kakashi's hand.
"Hey, Naruto. Are you sure? I doubt it's from you though..." Shikamaru teased him.
"Idiot! This costs 10,000 Ryuu!" Naruto said.
"10,000 Ryuu?!" They said in unison.
Naruto covered his mouth. He realized Hinata was listening.
"Hi-Hinata..." Naruto murmured with a funny face.
She was confused about what was happening.
"What's that ring all about?" Kakashi asked.
"Hey?! Don't tell me...!" Shikamaru muttered.
From a goofy face, Naruto became serious and looked at Hinata.
"Hinata, the day you were kidnapped I was heading my way to your house. I was supposed to give you this ring." Naruto revealed.
Hinata was in total shock. Her cheeks were red.
"F-For me?" She was stuttering.
Naruto moved closer to her.
"When I talked to Shikamaru, I figured out my true feelings for you. I have realized what being an adult should like." Naruto stated. Hinata was listening to him. She was paying attention to every word he says.
"I realized that I need to be man enough to protect those I love." He added.
"Remember what I told you when we were on the moon? I told you whom I want to spend my last day on Earth with and to spend the rest of my life with. I want to spend it with you..." He continued.
Hinata's tears were unstoppable. They came rushing out from her eyes like a waterfall.
"Naruto..." Hinata murmured.
Shikamaru, Sai, and Kakashi were silently listening to Naruto.
"Hinata, I am now ready to write the next chapter of my life. I am ready to flip the next page of my story this time with you and with our future children." Naruto's words were so gentle. Hinata was so happy. Her eyes were showing it. He kneeled down in front of her.
"Hinata, will you marry me?" Naruto finally proposed to her.
"Naruto..." Hinata kept crying. She could not hold her tears back.
"Will you be my wife?" He asked her again.
"Yes..."