I'm back and ready for action. faints Okay maybe I'll just type on my laptop while I eat chicken soup.

Warning: Bad spelling and grammar. A bit of oocness.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Hinata, but a little part of me wishes.

Chapter four: The X-elite member.

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Hinata cracked open her eyes to see that it was morning once more. She saw the passing trees and flying birds. Hold on, she wasn't walking yet the trees were moving. She wriggled around to notice she was on someone's back. She turned her head to see dark blue hair. "Uchiha-san?" She blushed. "Stop moving, or I'll drop you on your head." He stated firmly. "I'm s-sorry." She said biting her lip. "Why would you fall off a branch." Sasuke said. Hinata looked embarrassed. Last night she did fall and she didn't remember much, except red. "Kazekage-sama?" Hinata said remembering who it was. Gaara was ahead of them, eyes closed yet still able to walk without tripping. "Yes, he was the one who carried you back. If it was an enemy nin you would have been dead." Sasuke lectured her. "I-I was training." Hinata said trying to defend herself. "Well all that would have been useless if you didn't even survive for after two minutes." Sasuke said.

Hinata frowned at the Uchiha'a attitude. "Put me down." She said her bangs covering her eyes. "So you can get lost?" Sasuke mocked. "Put m-me d-down." Hinata said again. Sasuke grunted as he, not very gently dropped her. She fell on back and she got up. Sasuke began to walk without her once more. Hinata felt upset yet sad for disappointing them and looking like a helpless child. Maybe she could leave, just runaway and let them take care of the mission. "I never give up, that's my way of the Ninja." Naruto's words rang through her head. "Naruto-kun." She whispered. Even though he wasn't physically there, she knew he was always going to be there to guide her. She put on a small smile deciding to fill the gap the two men left between each other.

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They were half way there as they jumped through the trees of a forest. Sasuke and Gaara had calculated it perfectly now all they had to do was capture the x-elite and bring her back to the other Elite members. Sasuke was infront while Gaara was close behind. Hinata was far behind. She knew she didn't have the speed, but she had one thing, a skilled Ninja in her mind that helped her to keep on going. She continued to go at her own trying not to tire herself out. She continued until she noticed something below. She activated her Bykuugan and saw a high Chakra level. Hinata was determined and slowly landed down. She came face to face with a masked figure.

The mask was black with a red x carved into it. The figure was clearly female and was wearing a black suit. "Zakuro Motoko?" Hinata asked gently. The figure said nothing as it stood there. "Motoko-sama! Please we are not here to fight you, we need to return you back. Please, don't think we will harm you." Hinata said. The figure stood still as it reached into it's pouch. It pulled out a kunai that glinted in the sun. Hinata stood her ground. "Motoko." She said softly. The figure lowered its head then snapped it back up, as it threw the kunai at Hinata. She dodged it easily. One after another came flying at her and she managed to dodge all. Hinata panted as her indigo hair fell messily over her face. The figure took out two kunai's as she threw them both at Hinata. She dodged both of them but some thing hit her shoulder. She winced in pain. She dodged both how did she get hit? Then it hit her, the figure was not trying to hit her with a kunai but was trying to hit her something less visible... a needle. Her head began to pound and her chakra began to close up. Hinata dropped to her knees. The pain was unbearable and it wouldn't stop.

The figure slowly pull out a shuriken and positioned it at Hinata. The figure looked relunctant but did what it planned to do and threw it at Hinata's forehead. Hinata couldn't move and she closed her eyes to await the pain. There was a swoosh sound and she felt herself being picked up and placed on something hard like a branch. She opened her eyes to see Sasuke hovering over her and removing the tiny needle out of her creamy skin. The pain then stopped and she felt warmth skatter over her numbed body. "Stay here." He said gently as he landed down to face the masked figure. Sasuke stood there staring at the silent figure and then in one fast movement he was infront of the figure, a kunai strucked into its stomach. The figure stood there unmoving, and Sasuke grunted. There was a poof and a log was in its place. Sasuke growled as he looked up to see the figure crouched ontop of a tree branch just above him.

The figure had its hand up as if it was holding something, then yanked it up. Sasuke fell on his back and was being dragged by an invisible string. He took out a hidden Kunai and cut the thread, which made him stop. The figure jumped down as Sasuke got up. He looked up to see Hinata still up there. He turned his attention back to the mask figure. He lunged at them and raised a fist as he attempted to punch them. The figure caught the fist. Sasuke then used his knee to knee there stomach, the figure poofed away as Sasuke's eyes went wide. The figure was behind him and hit him in the head, which made him sprawling across the forest floor. The figure looked at the laying Uchiha, as it began to approach him. Before it could take another step something wrapped around its feet and was swung into the air. It turned to see Gaara standing ontop a wave of sand. Sand began to surround its body, until only its head showed. The figure didn't struggle. Gaara brought the figure closer to him. The figure didn't move but sand began to crack and to Gaara's surprise the figure easily fell from the sand's grasp. In the figure's hand there was a purple glowing staff in her hand. It looked transparent, almost ghostly... but Gaara and Sasuke could both sense it was Chakra. This shinobi was capable of crafting chakra into weapons.

She lunged at Gaara and the sand shot up to prtect him, but she slashed through it with the staff and continued to reach the core. Gaara's eyes widened as the staff came in contact with his stomach, he jumped out of the sand barrier to have the figure in a close pursuit. The figure swung the staff and managed to slash Gaara's pants bottom. He snarled in annoyance. Sand swirled around the figure's foot as it slammed her into the ground. Gaara landed on his feet. The figure stood up and stared at Gaara's cold eyes, until it held up a hand and flashed two fingers, either the peace sign to show she was alright, or that she had victory. In one moment she jearked forward as if someone had just stabbed her and someone did... Sasuke was behind her, his sharigan now activated. The figure had blood dripping from her back. Sasuke pulled out the kunai as the figure's body fell. Gaara closed his eyes, but shot them open when he sensed something. The boody was beginning to melt into a pool of black shadows. A shadow clone. Sasuke looked around him, but then a fist met his jaw as he was sent flying up into the air, another clone came and hit his back, which sent his falling downwards, one last clone kicked him in the stomach and he spit out blood. Hinata looked away, she just sat there watching them, she had to do something.

Gaara decided to end this, his sand began to shoot up and a hand form. He was going to use desert coffin, a fatal attack. The sand moved in such speed it caught the figure. Gaara raised a hand and then closed it, as did the hand of sand and the figure inside furiously shook its head as blood splurted out. The fight was over, and the bad thing was that the mission was a failure because they need her back alive. Hinata breathed in when she noticed something with her Bykuugan. "Gaara-sama!" Hinata shouted. Gaara tuned his head to meet a huge blast that was so fast and so strong his sand could not sense it and he was sent flying through five different trees. Gaara was left unconscience just like Sasuke. Hinata looked at the figure. The figure's clothing was torned up and blood decorated her body... so she was in Gaara's sand, yet she survived Gaara's desert coffin. The figure looked up to see Hinata, who was terrified.

Hinata didn't notice the clone who knocked her out of the tree. She smacked the ground hard, but raised her head to see the figure very close. It grabbed her hair, which made Hinata yelp in pain. "Do something Hinata." She told herself. With her Bykuugn activated she summoned gentle fist. The figure still grabbed a hold of her indigo hair. Hinata grabbed the figures arm. The figure let go of her and stumbled backwards. Hinata stood up. "I will not give up." She said gently removing her jacket. "That's my way fo the Ninja." She said getting into her stance. The figure looked impressed, then did some hand seals and a huge chakra ball formed above the sky, and millions of little needles fell. Hinata shot chakra out of her hands and began to do her technique, and created a barrier... she had to make it big enough to cover both Sasuke and Gaara. Bigger, faster, longer. She said has she moved so fast the barrier grew bigger blocking and hitting each and every needle. The figure stood there watching. Hinata continued... until the last needle was hit, and she fell to her knees in exhaustion. The figure approached her and kneeled down. "I respect your way of the Ninja... Hinata-sama." The figure said before Hinata blacked out.

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I finally worked on this thing... hehehe, please review. I'm not really good with fight scences so bear with me.