Still Falling for You [NH year 2020]

November - Crime AU

Manga/Anime: Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto/Studio Pierrot
Words: 3 623
Publish: 11/20/2020
Summary: Canon divergence - When Hinata arrives next to Naruto, she looks for Pain. However it seems Konoha's enemy is gone. She then turns towards its hero, excepting to see a smile. But she only sees darkness in his sky blue eyes and she doesn't know where it comes from.

She couldn't see. The seal on the blindfold prevented her from using her Byakugan.

She had tried to get rid of it. Unfortunately, every time she fiddled with the fabric, a powerful shock wave would make her spasm, her throat becoming irritated because of her screams echoing between her cell walls. Pain pierced her retinas, provoking tears taking their time to dry on her frozen skin. Electricity then crawled along her nerves, creating an immediate headache.

Being unable to rely on her sight, her other senses had then got accustomed of her surroundings since she'd been here.

She was fastened. The sound of the chains on her wrists and ankles against the cold metal bars had given away the answer when she tried to escape, the length of her ties only permitting her to walk between her toilet and her mattress.

She knew how each stone of her cell walls felt and she knew one of them had a crack she intended to use when the right time would come.

She could hear her guardians' steps and voices. Omoi and Karui would say Naruto deserved the beating they'd given him, as if Hinata wasn't caged right behind them. It would happen the Raikage visited her too. His strides were different from the others'. Quick, but heavy. Like claps of thunder against the prison's stones charged with animosity towards Konoha.

Apparently, he hadn't swallowed the last events that happened in Kumo yet.

Darui had been named to become raikage after A's body had been found in his office.

"Naruto's been seen at the Kumo frontier. Team 8, I want you to go and lend Team 7 your support."

It was a S-ranked mission.

Track, analyse and capture the rogue ninja at dusk.

When she recognised his chakra - warm, bright and unhidden - with her Byakugn, her heart throbbed. Hinata rushed towards him, ignoring Kiba's and Shino's calls behind her.

But instead of coming back to the village with the one she had been running after for months, Hinata and her team found themselves on the crime scene.

The room was empty, quiet.

The atmosphere knotted their guts.

The sensorial ninjas they were were confused, unable to sense what was hidden.

The air was still crackling after having been in contact with his chakra and was running on their bare skin, the hair on their neck standing on end.