DEMON COUPLE 2

CHAPTER 1

Well, I'm back! With the sequel to 'DEMON COUPLE' so, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it before you read this fic… But if you really don't want to, feel free to read this, I guess. It may not make much sense, but if you really don't want to read the prequel, it wouldn't take long to catch on on what has happened in the previous story... maybe... JUST READ THE PREQUEL!... and review, please? You guys are amazing and I love hearing from you.

OH, and I've named it 'DEMON COUPLE 2' only because I want it easily recognisable as the sequel to DEMON COUPLE, so I believe I'm going to keep it that way, at the moment. Any ideas, feel free to tell me, but I'm not sure I want to change the title. Thanks :)

I'd like to say I'm so pleased with all my reviewers, and loyal readers that have stayed with me throughout DEMON COUPLE..

So, I guess I should shout out to some of my top reviewers! (review frequently, and I'll do a special shout-out to you!)

Hinatasgreatestfan – Okay, so you're first on my favourite reviewers because you're cool. You're a great friend, and always there for me. SO I think I owe you like a gold star and a medal and ice cream and a cake, and every other amazing thing in the world, like probably a million gold stars, for all you've done for me. Oh, and he has some amazing NaruHina stories, so CHECK THEM OUT! :)

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Chewie Cookies – I gotta say, you have some pretty epic stories. You always pick up on my mistakes, and you're a good friend. You're my sometimes-Beta-Reader... lol, but that's just when I really want them checked or I can be bothered.

Kiubi123 – I've taken in what you've said, especially about the sequel. And I love the idea. Thank you so much!

Uzumaki Ricky – you always write to me in capitals. And that makes me smile. I love how cheerful you are when you review, and the CAPITALS! Actually, ONCE, you didn't, and I was a little shocked haha. I enjoy your reviews muchly :)

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And everyone else who has reviewed, or even read my stories. You guys are amazing. Seriously! I love you. And because I love you so much, I'm continuing this story.

So, enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

** DEMON COUPLE **

** DEMON COUPLE **

Something was seriously wrong.

The small group of ninja couldn't stop the suspicious feeling, the shiver down their backs, the way their hair stood on end, the feeling that something was seriously wrong. It was their instincts, and living the life of a ninja, all four of them learned to live by their instincts, because trusting instincts, more often then not, saved lives.

Sasuke Uchiha - the mutually decided leader of the group - was the first to stop. No one had spoken, but they all knew that everyone had gotten that same ominous feeling. His onyx-black eyes studied the village in front of him, halting any more movement forward so his team would follow his example. He wasn't going to let his team – his family – enter a potentially dangerous village. So he stopped, letting the wind pass through his raven hair as he turned to the rest of the small group.

"We can't enter. Not yet." He looked over each member of the group, noticing all of their looks turning down-cast. They were all getting excited about returning home.

But apparently that wasn't going to happen quite as quickly as they once thought.

Naruto Uzumaki, the blonde, spiky-haired clown of the group sighed loudly. "Dammit!" He cried, glancing wistfully over to the village. Sad, but accepting of Sasuke's decision. "So what do you thinks going on? And what are we going to do about it?"

He couldn't deny it, he felt that something was off, too.

"It's a sunny day, few clouds in the sky," Hinata, the shortest female of the group leant gently against Naruto, showing in her actions the affection she held towards him as she spoke, "Yet there are no birds flying above, no noise of children laughing and civilians chatting with each other. It seems abandoned." She ran a hand through her long raven hair, being sure not to knock the white camellia off of her ear.

"Has something happened since you've been here last?" Sahana, the last member of the group asked, unsure. She was the only one who had never been to the village before. She didn't know what it was like, but she still got the ominous feeling like the rest of them. A village should never be this quiet. Not even a hidden village.

"Hinata," Sasuke ordered the ex-Hyuuga, "Check it out with your Byakugan."

She did as he asked, veins hardening around her eyes until they were visible, "Sasuke-nii," She said quietly, "It's so empty. There are very few people outside, and quite a few ninja, but I have never seen any of them before. Some people, I remember, but these ninja... They're different. Most others are inside, I can see large groups of people crowded together in buildings. Something is wrong here." She focused on the team leader in front of her, Byakugan still activated, "What do we do?"

"We need to sneak in there, check it out." Sasuke said determinedly.

Naruto nodded in agreement, "We should find others from the rookie nine, too. They'd tell us what's going on. They'd know."

"Hana-chan," Sasuke turned to Sahana, "You have to go in. We would be easily remembered, just act like a civilian and try to find out what's what." He asked of his girlfriend.

Sahana nodded, determined, "Okay, Sasuke-kun. I will. But I don't know anyone from the 'Rookie Nine' and even if I knew what they looked like, I doubt they'd be able to trust me so quickly."

Sasuke had already thought of this. He turned to Hinata, "Hinata-imouto. You're the stealthiest out of all of us. I want you to shadow Hana-chan, help her find someone who can help us."

Hinata nodded, and Naruto pouted. It wasn't that he wanted to be the one to go in there, even though he would've enjoyed it, he just didn't like Hinata going in without him, for whatever reason. It wasn't that she wasn't capable, because, by god, she was capable. There were many times where the two of them would end up in a tie while sparring. She was good.

He just didn't like letting her out of his sights. Ever. He loved her, she was his girlfriend. He took it upon himself to protect her at all times, even if she didn't really need protecting.

He was over-protective, but he didn't care.

And looking over to Sasuke, he knew his 'brother' felt the same. Except the difference between Sasuke and Naruto, was that Sasuke thought with his head a lot more than Naruto did. Sasuke thought with statistics and logic, putting up with their best option, while Naruto was well known to think with his heart.

"Okay, we'll be back soon." Hinata knew how her boyfriend was feeling and rubbed his shoulder gently in comfort, "I'll bring the scroll, so I can summon you if we find help, okay?"

Naruto looked down on her with a small smile, "Or if you need help, or if you think I should be there, or if you miss me, or if I miss you."

She smiled, picking up the large summoning scroll and putting it onto her back. It was different to the normal summoning scrolls, this one was used to summon people. It was useful, but very large, which wasn't going to help with the whole 'stealthy' thing. But it was fine. Hinata had a plan.

"Okay," Sahana smiled, giving Sasuke a quick kiss goodbye as Hinata did the same to Naruto, "Let's get going, Hina-imouto."

Hinata nodded, pulling her hands together for a quick line of hand signs, "Kamereon no Jutsu (CHAMELEON NO JUTSU)," she called out firmly, and disappeared into thin air.

Well, that's what it looked like.

"Let's go," She called out from air, as now everyone could no longer see her, and gave Naruto another quick kiss, Sahana laughing as it looked like Naruto was kissing air.

"Come on, you little love bird." Sahana laughed, leaving Sasuke and Naruto to hide out in the cover of the trees in the forest, and walked towards the village.

Konohagure.

** DEMON COUPLE **

Hinata was right, Sahana realised as she got to the large gate that was the entrance to Konoha. It did seem almost abandoned. But Hinata did say she saw heaps of people, they just weren't out and about as they should be. They were hiding. But from what?

"Who are you and what is your purpose here?" Sahana turned her head to see the ninja guarding the front gate, someone Hinata had never seen before. He wasn't like the usual upbeat smiley leaf chunin that usually guarded their home, he was stoic, emotionless, complete with a fake smile that wasn't even close to looking normal.

"I'm Sahana Hagari, and I'm here to visit my aunt." Hana explained to the man innocently, playing the role of a civilian.

The strange man watched her silently, his beady eyes studying her intently, "I've never seen you here before," His eyes narrowing, making the invisible Hinata raise an eyebrow at him. She'd never seen him before, so he obviously hadn't been in the village for long. "And you don't seem to be holding any of your belongings," The stoic man continued, "Who are you?"

Sahana kept in character, calm and collected on the outside so she could actually get in to Konoha. "I live in Spring country with my grandfather and come to see my aunt once a year for a couple months. I don't bring any of my possessions because I keep half my wardrobe at her place because I stay here so long."

"Since when did Konoha get so paranoid?" Hinata asked herself. She knew for sure that something was wrong. People she didn't know were wondering the village? There were no children playing around and hardly any civilians walking around to do their daily duties.

The guard studied Sahana for several more seconds, and the girl twitched and glanced around awkwardly, playing the part of an innocent – confused – civilian perfectly. "Welcome to Konoha, Sahana Hagari. Enjoy your stay."

A fake smile was sent towards Sahana, who nodded, smiling back politely and walking into the village. The two women walked in silence for a while, waiting until they were perfectly sure they were out of earshot. "Where do I go?" Sahana asked quietly, to anyone else it looking like she was talking to herself.

"Just walk around, I need to scope this place out. I'll see if I can find anyone I can trust." Hinata whispered back. "Byakugan." She activated her byakugan once again, intently searching over the entire area. The only people she could see out of their homes were ninja, many of which she didn't know. There were few that she was sure were familiar, but none that she had particularly knew while she lived in the village.

So she defined her search, looking inside the houses. Every shop or business was closed, and she could only see people inside houses, which made Hinata wonder how the village was still together. Without businesses, how could the village get any money? The ninjas couldn't do much, because people would still need the produce to keep them alive. How would they buy food, water, supplies?

She didn't understand it.

Hoping it would all make sense soon, Hinata looked inside houses, searching for someone she knew, someone she could trust – preferably from the Konoha 12 – and found another abnormality. So many people were bunched together in small houses, families of 14 in a house with only three bedrooms. There were many that weren't even related, all stuck together inside a house.

Some houses she couldn't see into. In Konoha, this wasn't too strange. Because of the Byakugan, some people became paranoid, they didn't want Hyuugas looking into their homes. Not even by accident, so they made sure they couldn't. Hinata looked past those houses, knowing there was nothing she could do about it, and concentrated on the people she could see.

Most people were sleeping, which was strange this time of the day, others, watching the TV, she caught a group of people playing cards, but none were doing strenuous jobs, just something casual and none of them seemed very interested in what they were doing.

It was if they were just simply biding their time.

But why?

Sighing, Hinata looked around some more, hoping she could hurry and find someone, instead of just adding question after question onto her considerably large list of 'things-she-doesn't-understand-yet'.

"Find anything?" Sahana asked, hearing Hinata sigh and wondering how long she was going to be able to wonder around Konoha, pretending to know where she was going.

"N-" Hinata started to answer, but stopped, half way though the word. Grinning to herself, She focused on the person she could see stepping out of a house and placing a bag into the garbage bin, "Turn left on your next corner, then continue forward until you hit the end of the road, then turn right. Stop at the fourth house on your left."

"Got it."

Finally, they were going to get some answers.

** DEMON COUPLE **

** DEMON COUPLE **

END OF CHAPTER 1