A/N How has time gone by so fast?! I can't believe it's been so long since I last updated this! My flashdrive with the next five chapters for all of my stories got erased, so I'm just winging all the ideas I'd had and I'll try to shoot out a chapter for all my stories as quickly as I can between writing and other things I'm doing.
Chapter 20
"Somebody is watching us." Hinata was barely out of breath as she appeared in the Hokage's office, while Sasuke was panting slightly beside her. "Anko and Naruto are with my shadow clones. The person hasn't caught on yet, I don't think. And it isn't any ninja I know from here."
Minato was already on it, motioning for two of his ANBU to get ready to leave. "Where are they?"
"Ichiraku's Ramen." And the ANBU were gone, leaving the three alone in the office. "I have to get back to my team. I cannot leave them in danger, no matter what the cost." And she was taking off again, ignoring anything Minato would try to say and leaving Sasuke to race after her once again.
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"Listen up, maggot. Someone is watching us. Hinata and Sasuke went to tell the Hokage, but act like you have no idea until I tell you it is safe again. Eat some ramen if you understand." Naruto slipped some ramen into his mouth while watching Anko out of the corner of his eye, babbling over her voice so no one else would hear. The Hinata and Sasuke clones were talking between themselves and making little sense, but it didn't matter since nobody around could hear them.
Anko felt the presence of ANBU now, and then Hinata and Sasuke again, startling her. It wasn't until the ANBU left that she nodded, however. "We have a job to do now. Finish up." Naruto took one last bite of ramen before Anko threw down the money and they left to join Sasuke and Hinata outside, the shadow clones dispelling when Hinata finally let them.
"I'm guessing Team Yoru has an interrogation to do now." Hinata was excited at the thought of it, but the rest of the team was still stuck on what she said first.
"'Team Yoru'?" Anko asked the question on all of their minds, but Hinata only smiled.
"I came up with a team name. It's the only one we have so far. And I think it fits, we all seem to work most in the night or in the shadows during the day. Kind of like vampires." Hinata shrugged. "Change it if you come up with something better."
"All for Team Yoru?" Sasuke shrugged before lazily raising his hand while Naruto nodded his head excitedly. "Guess we are Team Yoru now."
"Good." Hinata nodded her head before walking into the Interrogation building and made her way into Ibiki's room. She sat in one of her chairs with a little smile on her face. "Do we get to interrogate him? Please?"
"No." It was short and sharp. "He was looking for you guys. Why would I just hand you over to him?"
"Because I can put on my outfit and give Sasuke a hat and glasses and nobody will recognize him. Please?" Hinata even shifted forward in her seat, pleading with Ibiki.
He finally gave in. "Fine. But guards are going to be standing inside with you guys."
"Thanks! Come on Sasuke!" She grabbed his wrist and pulled him out of the room and through the halls to a closet, pushing him inside and closing the door behind herself. "Here." She grabbed a random beanie hat and a pair of big-framed glasses.
Without warning, she started taking off her shirt and Sasuke jumped back, covering his eyes. "What are you doing?!"
"I'm wearing another shirt under this. And we all know you aren't interested in girls." And she continued, ripping off the shirt and pulling the frilly pink dress from so long ago off a hanger. "You tell anyone about this, I kill you." Sasuke wouldn't doubt her abilities in doing so, and only nodded his head, promising not to. "Good. Now, can you tie the back up for me?"
He awkwardly grabbed the ribbons and pulled them tight before tying them. After that was done, Hinata slipped her shorts off from under the dress and changed her shoes to a pair of flats that matched the dress. "I have knives hidden in any part of this. Do not piss me off." Sasuke had no intentions to, but her warning still had him think twice. "And before I forget…" She grabbed a hair ribbon from a table and pulled her hair away from her face with it. Finally back in the costume, she put a smile on her face and started out, telling Sasuke to follow her.
They entered the room and the man tied to the chair looked up at the two kids. The guards positioned themselves by the door but didn't interfere as Hinata stalked up to the man and Sasuke followed a few steps behind her. "I don't feel like getting blood on my dress so you better talk. What were you doing in Konoha?"
He didn't answer, but Hinata hadn't really expected him to. She pulled a knife out from her dress and grabbed him by the hair, standing behind the man and pressing the knife into his neck until blood began to trickle down. "Why were you in Konoha?"
"I was looking for some kids." The knife pressed deeper as Sasuke asked for names. "Some student's under Orochimaru's old kid. A Hyuuga and an Uchiha and the Uzumaki kid."
"Why did you want them?" The knife was dragged lightly across his skin and the blood created a small trail behind it. Hinata shifted her hands until the knife was resting next to the man's ear. He tried to be quiet again and she wasted no time in slicing off the tip. "Why?"
"To capture them. Experiment on them like Orochimaru wanted." Hinata was pressing the knife tip into the cut, forcing the man to talk through the pain. The duo continued to get all the information they needed from the man, and Anko had to admit that Sasuke was good as well.
By the time they were walking out of the room, Hinata's dress had a bunch of bloodstains on it. "You kind of got blood on the dress."
"Thank you captain obvious. Did your glasses help you see that?" But Hinata still smiled at Sasuke, although it was quite creepy in the bloody dress. When they reached the closet once again, Hinata stripped as she had last time, right in front of Sasuke, and threw the ruined dress to a corner of the room to be forgotten.
When they walked out again, they were back to their normal clothing and didn't look like they had just tortured information out of somebody. Hinata didn't even think about it as she led the way back to Ibiki's room and sat back in her chair. "That was easy."
"Does this mean we can go back to our dorms now?" It was Naruto who asked the simple question, yet nobody knew the answer. "I'm going to ask Dad."
He was already running when Anko was yelling at him. "He's the Hokage. Call him more than 'Dad'!"
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"You can return to your dorms, however, as an active team, I would ask that you not since you four aren't quite considered students anymore and we can use the dorms for other students…" The Hokage looked at the team in front of him before signing a few papers on the desk. "Then you can stay in your current apartment or return to live with your families."
"Basically you want us out of the dorms." Anko summed it all up and saw Minato nod slightly, causing a slight smile to form on her face. "I'm all for staying in the apartment."
Hinata was the first to nod, followed by Sasuke and Naruto as soon as she did. "Well then… You might as well tell Itachi to report back to me. That apartment now belongs to your team. Use it well. And don't forget that all of you have to go to the school assessment tomorrow." They were waved out of the room, and it wasn't until they were walking through the village that Hinata broke the silence.
"Did any of you know we have an assessment tomorrow?" The others only shook their heads. "Okay, I didn't miss reading something then. Any ideas what is might be on?"
"Whatever Anko was supposed to teach us since the last one. So, what were you supposed to teach us that we are going to have to cram tonight?" Sasuke didn't even break stride as he spoke to Anko, ducking under her fist since he knew it was coming.
"I don't know. Just wing it. Hinata's done that every time and passed. You should be able to do that too." She didn't seem all that fazed by the whole thing. "Besides, he said all of us. It is probably some team exercise or something. If not, just copy Hinata."
She unlocked the door to their apartment and swung it open, walking right in. "Uchiha, you can go back to the Hokage. We caught our stalker dude and tortured him out of his mind."
"I can leave?" It came from somewhere in the many rooms, and when it was confirmed, Itachi was there with his pack already in hand. "See you all whenever. Come home sometime brother." And he walked out of what was probably a personal hell for however long he was there.
"That was nice." Anko didn't say anything else, strolling into the apartment and falling right onto the couch, turning on the television as she did so. "This is all ours now. Team Yoru's apartment."
"Since we are an official working team now, we should celebrate." Naruto looked at the others around the living room. "Play some games or something."
"We are not playing spin the bottle." Anko threw a pillow at him before he could even mention it, but Naruto ducked under it.
"I was thinking Hand of Truth." He held up an open hand before explaining the rules, all while taking a seat on the couch by Sasuke. When he finished explaining how it worked, he looked around. "Want to play?" Everyone either shrugged or nodded, so he smiled and leaned back. "Then I'll go first. I've never kissed a girl that I wasn't related to."
Anko put her first finger down, but it was otherwise silent as Sasuke thought of what he was going to say. "I've never gotten below a 95 on a school assessment." Both Naruto and Anko put down a finger and attention turned to Hinata.
"I've seen a person die." It was morbid, but it kept one of Anko's fingers up while Sasuke and Naruto put one down. Hinata was now the last one with all five fingers up.
Anko tried to get all of them to put a finger down. "I've gotten drunk." But none of them reacted. "When?!"
"Last time you got drunk and practically drowned us in sake." Sasuke didn't seem all that happy speaking of the memory, but Naruto started chuckling. "It wasn't funny what you did either, dobe."
"What he do?"
"Handcuffed Sasuke to the table until he said that Naruto was smarter than him and that he would try his whole life to live up to Naruto but would never be able to." Hinata smirked a little at it. "It took Sasuke five hours before Naruto passed out. Then I let him out."
Sasuke shuddered a little at the memory. "Just continue the game or I'm leaving."
"Fine… I've forgotten what my parents looked like before." What he said left Sasuke and Anko wondering just how he could manage that, but Hinata was having her own predicament.
"I've never seen my parents… Does that mean I've forgotten what they look like?"