The Lion and the Lamb

HI GUYS. Lol okay, this is my very first fanfic! Don't hate me too much okayyy?

Please review how I'm doing please. c:

Also this will be a HinataxDeidara, HinataxItachi, and HinataxHidan. It will all be decided at the end of the chapters.

Story contains profanity.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, no one would watch it… ._.

Chapter 1: Murderer

Hidan was leaping from branch to branch. His brows furrowed, confused with his mission. Of course, he did not question Leader-sama's orders. As if he could refuse. Looking over to his comrade, Itachi, he sighed.

'Must be a fucking party if he had to come along.'

Hinata was on the outskirts of the village. She had been sparring with her cousin Neji for hours. It's been a while since the Chuunin exams and over the course of that time, Hinata has gotten stronger. Stronger than Neji expected. The Hyuuga genius ducked and dodged his raven-haired cousin's Jyuukin….unsuccessfully. Hinata landed several hits to Neji's arms. Hinata put her blood, sweat, and tears into training with her cousin every day. Going through bone fractures, scrapes, and other injuries to achieve her goal; which was sitting right in front of her.

"Hinata-sama!" Neji yelped.

The blue-haired girl focused her chakra on her left index and middle finger and struck Neji on the chest blocking his chakra flow then following up with a kick to his head that would have been a fatal hit on a regular civilian but a knockout to Neji. A loud grunt was made followed by a thud.

"YATTA!" Hinata gasped in shock as she finally beat her cousin to a pulp. Congratulating herself, she deactivated her Byakugan and lifted Neji's arm over her shoulders, supporting his weight. She slowly trudged along the path back into Konoha. Hinata finally proved to herself that she could change. Her father will finally accept her and will not think twice about making her the head of the Hyuuga clan.

Hinata reminisced on her conversation years ago.

Flashback

"Hinata," Hiashi called to his daughter expressionless "you are weak. You cannot be head of this family if you are not strong. You have four years to train with Neji. If you haven't proven yourself worthy by the time you are 18, you will be removed from the family. Dismissed."

"H-h-hai, o-otousan.." Hinata stuttered, bewildered by her father's words.

"And stop that maddening stutter of yours!"
"H-hai, otousan," managing to spit out, Hinata shuffled towards the door and out of the house.

'I'm a failure, I will never be strong' the frigid girl thought. 'I will never be able to lead this clan.'

"Ohayo," a firm voice called out.

Hinata spun around. Neji-niisan.

He had a smirk across his face.

"O-oh! N-neji-niisan, ohayo. G-gomen, I didn't s-see you t- there." Hinata smiled at her cousin. Neji has gotten softer since his battle with Naruto during the Chuunin exams. He finally accepted her, and this made Hinata especially happy.

"Shall we begin our training?" the older Hyuuga raised a brow.

Hinata nodded gratefully. Neji's smirk faded into an emotionless mask.

"But first, we have to get rid of that stutter."

End of flashback

Hinata had lost her pesturing stutter once and for all because of her cousin. She was grateful of him. The corners of her mouth tugged upwards revealing a small yet warm smile.

In her own little world, the raven-haired girl failed to notice the dark figure in a black cloak with red clouds has been following her.

Hinata arrived at Hyuuga compound, ecstatic to give her father the news. She made her way through the door and up the stairs. Neji, still unconscious, was gently placed in his bed. Arranging his body on the limb as best as she could, carefully positioning his hair on his bed. She grabbed Neji's hairbrush from his dresser and tenderly brushed his chocolate brown locks (Hinata knows how Neji hates getting a head full of tangles). She slipped off his forehead protector revealing the curse mark and kissed it.

The milk-eyed girl left her cousin's room and headed downstairs towards her father's office. Standing outside, she knocked ever so softly on his door. No answer. She waited a little longer before proceeding to knock again. Strange. The compound was quiet. Too quiet.

Panicked, she activated her Byakugan and searched the household only to find several corpses lining across the ground. Hyuuga corpses. The closest body was in her garden, still moving. Hinata frantically ran towards it. She burst out of the door and recognized the body quickly. Her chest froze, her eyes locked on the heaving person, her mind exploded when the face of the dying person before her stared at her with dull, white chalk board eyes. Eyes filled with sadness and fear.

The blue-haired girl fell onto her knees staring at her sister in the face.

"H-h-hanabi…." Hinata stammered out, tears violently escaping from her eyes. "W-w-w-hat h-happened.."

Hanabi struggled to lift her head towards her sister, her vision blurred.

"H-h-hinata-niichan…. I… the clan… father… the…" Hanabi said one word before her head plopped to the ground, lifelessly. "….Akatsuki."

Hinata shuddered, her long flowing hair was shaking do to her shivers of fear. She felt a lump in her throat. Before she could cry any longer, he heard a cry. A male's cry. The Hyuuga's head snapped up.

"FATHER!" she darted away from her sister's dead body, stealing an apologetic glance back, and flew into the house. She searched for the source of the cry.

Hiashi's eyes were stern but flawed with fear. As if he was staring into the face of death. The dark figure had one hand around the Hyuuga's neck, another with a kunai against his chest.

"You.." Hiashi wheezed. "stay away from her…" and with that warning, Hiashi's life was sucked out of his body. A kunai penetrating his heart. The dark figure retreated as Hinata kicked the door down.

"F-f-father…." Hinata whimpered. Her knees gave out, just as it had for Hanabi. She buried her face on his crimson stained clothing and wept for what seemed like hours. The moon-like eyes that used to be bright was now surrounded by red, fire-like rimmed sockets and her eyes duller than a pencil.

Neji Hyuuga was awoken by the sound of a male shrieking. The brunette snapped upright and looked around the room.

'What am I doing here..' he pondered.

Then he heard a thud and the splintering of wood. The jonin raced towards his door, slid it open, only to be met with a pair of Sharingan eyes. Neji was taken aback, slipped and fell. He opened his eyes once more only to find that he was awoken to a painful shriek of a man.

'It was only a dream' he pinched his arm to ensure himself that he was awake that time.

He heard the crashing and breaking of wood and paper. Neji stood up to investigate. He maneuvered down the stairs to find Hinata who was crouched beside a body. His uncle's body. Shocked, Neji stepped forward Hinata's heaving body. The eldest Hyuuga put his hand on his cousin's shoulder to try to console her. Neji gasped.

Hinata turned around to reveal a blood lusting Cheshire grin wide upon her bloodied face. She had a kunai in her hand. The brunette activated his Byakugan to make sure it was really his beloved cousin. Hinata menacingly laughed at him. It was her but she wasn't the same. Her moon colored eyes filled with insanity and the thirst for blood. His blood.

The Hyuuga made no move to attack but instead sprinted the other direction, away from the crazed woman who was once his timid and fragile cousin.

'Hinata-sama…. What has gotten into you… Why…?'

He hadn't realized the lunatic girl was behind him and aimed a punch at the side of his head, knocking him out cold in the middle of the Hyuuga corpses.

Hinata watched it all happen. The man with beautiful, violet eyes and silver slicked-back hair had bound her arms and feet together, after he pried her off of Hiashi's cold cadaver. He carried her bridal style. If Hinata wasn't in deathly afraid, she would have been cherry-red by now. They followed a man with black hair tied back in a low pony-tail up the stairs towards her still unconscious cousin's room. Hinata began to squirm with the silver hair man's arms. She stared at his magenta eyes, feeling lost in them before she started struggling against his hold again.

'They're going to kill Neji-niisan too! I must do something, I MUST!' Hinata tried to scream before the magenta-eyed man slapped a rough hand over her mouth muffling her pleas.

"Quiet the fuck down, bitch!" the man hissed at her. The horror-struck girl caught a glimpse of a scythe with three blades on his back. A cold metal touched her arm and she tensed at the contact. It was a necklace around the silver-haired man's neck.

When they reached the hallway before Neji's room, the dark-haired man turned to face Hinata. Her gaze fell onto his crimson eyes.

'Those eyes… They're…. Sharingan… Uchiha Itachi.' Hinata managed to realize. It was the Mangekyou Sharingan. At the sight, she knew she was in a genjutsu. Their atmosphere didn't seem to change. She looked confused at the Uchiha then at the man with the scythe. He looked down at her with a grin plastered across his flawless face. Then it hit her. The genjutsu wasn't for her. She was just a mere bystander. An audience of what will happen to her niisan.

The Uchiha waited patiently until the door slammed open revealing a startled Neji. Hinata wanted to warn him. She wanted to tell him to run away. She never felt so helpless in her life. Why did they make her watch? What was their purpose? Why Neji? Why her clan? Why now?

The illusion began. She witnessed how Neji thought it was a dream. She witnessed how shocked he was to find a Hinata madwoman look-a-like kneel beside her father. She also witnessed the other crazed Hinata attack her cousin. Why had this happen? When Hinata saw her cousin fall, tears weld up in her eyes, falling on cue as her niisan fell.

She closed her eyes wishing it was all just a dream.

Author's note: BAAAAAH I TRIED GUYS OKAY I TRIED. NO FLAMES PLEEAASSE. T^T

Next chapter will be up and running sooner than you think actually xD

Also tell me if anyone else gets this.. okay?