I woke up seriously distorted. My entire body felt like I decided to drain body of bone and muscle and replace it with Jell-O, most likely the repercussions from using the cellular healing aspect of the seal. Even with the complete and utter lack of energy and muscle usage I could still feel my body flooding with the new reserves of power that I'd unlocked. My chest felt heavy with guilt from the ruthless massacre of Orochimaru and his followers but the feeling of happiness and freedom was more overwhelming than my guilt. I'd finally taken out Orochimaru and stopped his reign of terror, Jūgo and hopefully Suigetsu and Karin are also joining the team, and last but not least my dad is safe. The feeling of relief that entered my body when Hidan sent the signal he'd found and returned my dad to the leaf was bliss, happy tears pricked at my eyes knowing he was finally safe from my mistake.

All of the blood I remember being covered in was washed away and I could feel my hair laying out around me, it was no longer crusted with blood and out of the ponytail resting in its natural slightly wavy state. My previously shredded clothes were traded out for a large shirt and even laying down I could tell it went to just above my knees. It had to have been Kakuzu's or Kisame's, nobody else is large enough for a shirt this big. My entire body was screaming with exhaustion as I tried—and failed—to sit myself up against the bed. My eyes traveled around the room and at the edge of the bed was a silver head of hair. Hidan was sleeping sprawled out half on the bed and half on the chair, drool dripping out of his mouth as he mumbled incoherently.

"H-Hid-an." My voice croaked out from the lack of use but it was loud enough to wake up the surprisingly light sleeper. His magenta orbs opened and blinked a few times before focusing on me, he grinned and moved towards my side.

"Damn Hot Bitch for after three days of you being out, I thought you weren't gonna wake up. Man you really did a fucking number on the creepy snake bastard, putting a hole in his chest like that...ruthless. You were covered in blood, if you weren't passed the fuck out it woulda been so sexy." He smiled that sexy smirk of his as he praised me. The tears I had been holding back started to fall as I smiled, the brightest and most grateful one I could muster up. "Ah fuck stop crying. Why the-" I cut him off but using all of my energy to throw myself onto him, hugging him. Getting over the surprise of my affection that I'd never given him before, Hidan relished in it and wrapped his muscular arms around me, holding me at the waist.

"Thank you." I mumbled to him, he knew what I was talking about and grinned, lifting me up and sliding in besides me so I could hug him without too much energy. I lifted my head slightly and placed a kiss on his cheek, he smirked cockily but his cheeks turned slightly red as he gripped his Jashin pendant and mumbled something inaudible.

"No sweat. Lord Jashin was satisfied enough with my sacrifices that saving your old man was nothing."

"That's the most humble I've ever heard you." I smirked and he glared at me.

"Shut your damn mouth, I'm humble all the time!"

"Sure you are." I rolled my eyes and laughed slightly. Hidan reached behind him and pulled out a container of instant ramen, the same kind Naruto swears by. My stomach rumbled and I realized how hungry I really was. I tried moving my hands to grab the food but couldn't lift them enough to really do anything useful. Fuck. Hidan was bellowing with laughter.

"You're so fucking useless right now!" He cackled and grabbed the chopsticks to feed me the vegetable miso ramen, I glared in embarrassment. He was enjoying my weakness way too much. I opened my mouth to say something shitty back but he slapped his hand over it, magenta eyes still sparking in hilarity. I stuck my tongue out and ran it over his palm getting it super wet and then bit down. His face contorted into disgust and he pulled it away yelling.

"YOU SICK LITTLE FUCK! Don't lick peoples hands like that, thats so fucking disgusting." I giggled and stuck my tongue out, my body relaxing completely against him.

"Says the person who licks other peoples blood." I grumbled tiredly. "Just feed me." He shoved the ramen in my mouth, talking animatedly as I ate. His loud voice must have alerted whoever else was still here and the door creaked open Kakuzu's large form was the first one I noticed so I gathered up my strength to go to him but as soon as both of my feet touched the ground I started to sway and was ready to hit the floor but a large tanned hand had gripped the back of my shirt, lifting me up and dropping me unceremoniously onto the bed.

"Stop trying to move brat, conserve your energy so I don't have to help you anymore." I smiled as cheekily as I could, the so called partner murderer was helping me.

"I just wanted to thank you for saving my dad. Whatever reward you want, I'll find a way to get it." His red and green eyes bore into me as he thought of something, he was in a good mood probably from getting the bounty on Orochimaru.

"You're gonna count all the Akatsuki's money when I tell you to." His gruff voice said, I shrugged and agreed to it. It could have been worse, I'm surprised he didn't ask me for all my money though.

"Stop trying to corrupt her you greedy old fucker."

"Shut up or I'll kill you religious idiot." The door opened and a flash of orange entered before I was tackled down and smothered with hugs.

"Hinata-chan you're awake finally. Tobi was worried about Hinata-chan after she came home all bloody and had a weird purple thing on her face!" He rubbed his mask against my face as he talked excitedly. I pat his head like a child and giggled at his amusing rambling. "oh oH OH, Hinata-chan Tobi is a good boy and washed Hinata-chan's hair because Tobi remembers on missions how Hinata-chan always takes her hair down and dries for bed so it doesn't get tangled. Itachi-kun didn't let Tobi wash anything else though because it was womanly parts." I couldn't help the laugh from bubbling in my chest and was cracking up at him whispering into my ear thinking it was inappropriate. 

I should probably feel a bit more stressed about someone changing me but I trust Itachi with my life and know he wouldn't do anything bad, knowing him he probably did it with his eyes closed. As much as he scares me the fact that Tobi remembered that I always took my hair out and washed it before bed so it wouldn't get messy just proved to me that he was still a good person. It was something so small but it brought me so much warmth and happiness.

"You're a nice person Tobi-kun, thanks!" He placed his hands on his mask and squealed at the honorific. As much as I was enjoying talking to them, I was still drained and my eyes fluttered shut when I finally fell back asleep. My bed was still hot as Hidan and Tobi both were still in it with me but I was too tired to even care how hot it was. My dreams were plagued with the screams of all the blood on my hands and although I didn't know it Tobi and Hidan stayed and helped me sleep through the nightmares, letting me grab them tightly as I slept for two days. 

The hideout I was in was empty from teams other than Tobi and I so Konan had come to check on me when I was sleeping, I was a valuable asset and she was glad I seemed to be ok. No matter how cold Konan was, she didn't want someone as young as me to die from trying to protect my family. I had earned her respect as well as most of the other members even though a lot of them believed I was too soft hearted for the criminal life even after how many lives I had directly and indirectly taken.

The next time I woke up I felt so much better, my muscles no longer felt like they were nonexistent and the process of sitting up was marginally easier, that still didn't take away from how utterly exhausted I felt: both mentally and physically. My throat was burning slightly from misuse (or how much I screamed in the past week, I'll never understand how Naruto does it) and swallowing felt almost impossible. On the bedside table there was a water bottle, I wrapped my nimble fingers tightly around the plastic and brought it to my lips, the cool liquid coating my throat and soothing the dryness almost instantly. I breathed out a pleased sigh, slumping back into the wall behind me and realizing I have nothing to do.

I was sitting in the eerie silence for less than a minute when my mind started to go into the dark places, the heavy hand of guilt squeezing in my chest. To ease the pressure I did what every good ninja does and shoved it deeper into the already fucked corner of my mind and focused more on entertaining myself with the only training I could do in this pitiful state. My hands pressed into a seal and channeled my chakra flow into the water, merging my chakra with the faint, slow moving traces of chakra in the water from my bottle, having the clear liquid move its way out of the glass and make a sphere resting against my palm. In an instant I was entranced by the movement of the water, no matter how much control I had over the liquid it still flowed on its own path. 

Water was so free, so beautiful, so calming and yet it was still so powerful and vast; it was beautiful. The small strain of chakra I kept flooding into the water allowed me to mold the unpredictable liquid into whatever shape and form I wanted: small little lions that I could make run around my body, the best version of the Elder Wand I could muster, a heart that I had burst and reformed over and over again, and overall anything I could think of to try to shape. It was fun and took a lot of concentration, it was refining my chakra control even more.

The water was shaped into a small wolf that was moving around the room when the door opened and out of instinct, I barreled the water into whoever walked through the door and soaked them. Itachi's head peaked through the doorway, a scowl on his face as his now damp bangs stuck to his forehead as drops of water dripped down his features making a small puddle on the floor. His hand carefully ran through his now dripping hair and pushed the locks out of his face before coming to stand beside me, red eyes staring down into mine.

"Uh sorry about that?" It came out as a question as I chuckled at his slightly drowned rat look... even disheveled and dripping with water he was still hot though which is totally unfair like to every freaking person ever. Damn Uchiha genes.

"No.. you're not." He released a sigh but even with the slight annoyance I caused, his eyes betrayed him by shining with such love and happiness at my well being.

"You're right, I'm not sorry at all." I grinned at him and he held the smallest of smiles, almost unnoticeable to the untrained eye. I looked to the door as more people entered, it took me a second to recognize them (ya know not actually looking animated and stuff) but the large stature and orange hair gave Jūgo away especially now that I'm not practically fainting in his arms. The other figure was smaller but sipping on a bottle of water, his sharp teeth and icy hair were prominent features of...Suigetsu. My eyes went wide connecting with Itachi before looking back at them. They actually found him and he's here! I relaxed back into the wall once more and smiled at the two of them, feeling slightly bad when I realized the absence of Karin, that means Kisame 'took care' of her. "Hi Jūgo, nice to see you when I'm not tripping on exhaustion." He nodded, petting the small bird perched on his finger

"Hello Hinata-hime it is good to see you...well." I groaned at the name, feeling Itachi's amusement practically pouring from him even when he still looked stone cold.

"Please don't call me Hime, Hinata-chan or just Hinata works. 'tachi calls me Hime more so because it annoys me than because its proper." The orange haired teen nodded and I shifted my attention to Suigetsu who was still sipping his water, watching us talk. When I met his amethyst eyes he exposed his fang smirking at me unashamedly checking out my borderline scantily clad form. "Hey Suigetsu, I gotta say I'm pretty glad you decided to stick around at least until I woke up instead of going off on your sword hunt."

"Itachi-san made a good argument for me to stay, you know two of the living three swordsmen and hanging with you will make my job easier. Plus, I wanted to meet the person killed the annoying bitches Karin and Sakura and managed to piss off Kabuto so easily, four-eyes was such an annoying prick so watching him lose it was priceless." He grinned, shark teeth on full display. "Gotta say, I'm not disappointed cutie." He took another sip of water and pouted, whining, "awe man I'm out of water! Going to get more is so exhausting."

"I would give you the last of mine but...Tachi already took it all." Suigetsu laughed when Itachi's narrowed eyes on me, hair still dripping wet. Itachi glared at Suigetsu and the intensity of the Sharingan had him flinch back in the slightest before puffing his chest out once more. Jūgo and Suigetsu both took seats in my room and we were figuring out more about one another.

"So Hinata how did you kill Lord Orochimaru, I never thought he was going to die...the scary creep." Suigetsu's body shivered at the thought of his captor, Orochimaru was truly a scary mofo for all of us not blessed with Itachi level skills, which is basically everyone.

"He was weak, I wasn't fighting Orochimaru at his full strength or I might not have won, or at least had as little damage as I did. I could see his chakra flow being disrupted as it was rejecting the new body he was inhabiting so it made it a lot easier to kill him then it would have been... plus I was going to make sure he died even if I went with him." He kicked his feet up and put his hands behind his head, relaxing into the wall.

"Makes sense, you just got lucky then. Don't get a big head cuz of it, anybody could kill him if he's weak like that." He grinned teasingly, trying to rile me up while saving his pride for not being able to kill the person he feared.

"I'll punch a hole right through you water boy."

"Yeah yeah, so when are you going to help me get the swords? I've been itching to spar with Zabuza-sempai and show him his place." Suigetsu winked cheekily at me. "I'll be your ally until I collect them all, unless you want more from me; I'm always ready to please the ladies." He informed me of already meeting Pein and being offered a position on the Akatsuki. He's joining Tobi and I while Jūgo is joining Itachi and Kisame needing the Sharingan to stay calm. We discussed the sword to go for first and decided on finding Hiramekarei or Kiba one because I knew it was in the mist and the other because it is cool and currently inactive after the last user died, Suigetsu was going to have to defeat Zabuza and Kisame to get their swords. When I was finally able to move easily we went to the living room and let Jūgo make dinner in which Kisame and Tobi joined us for.

"Is that you little Suigetsu-chan? You've gotten big."

"Big enough that I'm going to kick your ass and take Samehada as my own." Kisame chuckled and turned towards me.

"I'm impressed that you succeeded small fry."

"Did you expect anything less Shark Boy?"

"Yes, I was expecting you to die." He put his large blue hand on my head and ruffled my hair.

"Well since I'm alive does that mean you'll finally train with me?" He smiled impishly at me.

"You've gotta keep up or I'll shred you."

"I can't wait." I was content and ate my food in happiness, if anyone will help my stamina it would be Kisame.

Later that night I entered into Itachi's dimly lit room and sat at the edge of his bed looking at him. He was extremely pale and coughing a wet cough that caused his face to scrunch up in pain.

"G-get out." He groaned through a wheeze. Itachi hates looking weak, he didn't want me or anyone else to see him falling so sick to his illness. Kisame only got to see it because they were together so often but even then Itachi played it off like everything was fine. His eyes were one thing but this, I don't know if I'll be able to heal him to keep him alive. It broke my heart, he's the strongest person I know and he was so fragile and I couldn't do anything about it.

"You're getting worse." Another fit of coughs racked through his body leaving him unable to respond. I placed my hand on the center of his chest and pushed him onto the bed so he'd stop sitting up. "Just-Just let me take the pain away for now. I'm going to find a way to heal you. I wont let you die, not yet." My hands glowed a faint green as I pushed my chakra into his body focusing on healing the shredded tissue of his lungs. I could feel his sickness pushing against my healing, it was in his bloodstream and just continually made him more and more sick. I focused on warming up my chakra so that it would bring the fever down and hopefully break it. 

I could feel Itachi's body relax more into his bed, the furrow of his brows finally released and he breathed a sigh, the pain being numbed down. When I healed as much as I could of the damage done by the toxin in his blood, I brought my hands up to his head and pressed slightly against each side of his temples. My hands glowed green once more and I focused intently on his eyes, healing the muscle strain done by his Sharingan. My eyes were closed as I healed so I didn't see the way Itachi studied me as I healed him.

His onyx eyes carefully looked over each feature of my face, being able to discern more and more details of my concentrated expression as his vision relaxed and started to clear once more. He smiled at how my tongue stuck out slightly in concentration and the way my nose scrunched as I used up my chakra, letting it mix with his as I forced it to heal every part of him I could. The heavy pressure on his chest lifted as he could breathe once more and the raging headache from his deteriorating eyes was fading into a dull thrum. When finished with everything I could do I got up and entered his closet, grabbing the loosest shirt of his I could find and a wet cloth. Itachi's hair was plastered to his face and his shirt was sticking to his skin from the sweat, his tired eyes were watching me move around until I came back to his side.

"Hinata-hime don't take care of me. This is what I deserve." I didn't respond and instead sent him a glare that conveyed all of my anger at the little care he has for his own well being. He tries to take care of everything for everyone else no matter the burden, it time to let someone else do that for him.

"Raise your arms." He did so dutifully and I pulled the damp shirt off of him. His pale skin was glistening with sweat and I took the wet rag, carefully rubbing the warm cloth against his chest. My fingers brushed against his chest and he shivered slightly, muscles contracting then easing into my touch. When all the fever sweat was gone, he put the shirt on and slid back down the wall, resting his head on the pillow. I used a cool rag this time to wash his face and let the towel lay on his forehead to help cool him down. I pulled the holder out of his hair, letting the silky dark locks free and brushed through it like Sasuke used to do for the both of us. His eyes fluttered shut and his breathing slowed to a steady rhythm. I pulled the covers up and slid in beside him, his body was hot but he needed as much warmth as possible to try to break the fever and I wanted a nightmare-less night.

"Good night." He whispered, poking my forehead softly before wrapping his arm around me and I nuzzled into his side, listening to his heart beat. It was comforting, a reminder of when he, Sasuke ,and I all used to have sleepovers and each of us would share a side of Itachi.

"Night." I mumbled, feeling myself relax into slumber, thinking of happy memories.

OK So I Did a poll when I was writing this story and doing a yandere madara one-shot in honor of Hinata and Madara's birthdays won so... thats coming next-ish

YAY FLUFFY CHAPTER! Next one Konan is going to have some bonding as they go shopping for more suitable combat clothes than a mens shirt...I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry it is so late I've had finals this week and got accepted into a college so I've been busy. Love ya!

Question: What naruto character(s) are you most like?

Answer: If Hidan, Naruto, Suigetsu, and Shikamaru had a love child that would be me