Hey guys, wow, I'm back again. (*bows* thank you, thank you *bows*) 

And thanks for the reviews everyone, it honestly means alot to me when a get that email telling me that my work was well received  (and don't worry Hime-23 I've been translating your reviews and yes, I can see why Tenten would be that way to you XD)

Speaking of reviews, I got this one review saying it sounded like Hinata was going to be taking care of a child. I'm glad someone pointed that out because yes, at first I was planning on having the woman's child survive and Hinata to take care of it, but I felt like, a) that had been done before and b) would be too much. A part of me wanted Hinata to be suffering more (omg I'm such a sadist) and another thing was that Hinata can barely take care of herself at the moment and even if she could take care of it, she needs to fix herself first.

Well, I shall shut up now so go ahead and read. Enjoy!

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She sloshed her drink, slouching in her chair, and took a long sip as she stared into the village before her. The windows of the Hokage's office allowed her to do this yet she found herself ironically seeing nothing even though she could see all. The alcohol was messing with her vision and she mused that any more and she'd wake up in a week. She found herself okay with that as the liquid settled at the base of her stomach, offering warmth in a way only whiskey could. 

She heard the office door slightly open. "Tsunade-sama?" Her assistant slipped in, closing the door gently behind her. She walked over to her sensei who was shamelessly still slipping from her cup. "No more drinking for today, sensei." Dainty hands plucked the glass from aged ones. 

Tsunade watched the colors of the sunset play on the face of her student. The colors painted her in orange and the light caused her brown eyes appear just a little bit brighter. The Hokage brought her arms together to cross at her chest. "Shizune. Get to it." She rubbed her temples as if that would will the headache away.

"Hai. Neji and his team have arrived from their mission." Shizune reached upon the desk and shuffled through the papers before she found the right one. She placed her in her sensei's hands firmly. "Neji has confirmed the mission a success and the team is virtually unharmed."

Tsunade slightly sighed, leaning forward over her desk and placing her elbows upon the smooth wood. "And...?" The way Shizune has formatted her presentation of this led Tsunade to believe that she wasn't quite finished. The alcohol in her stomach was slowly relinquishing its hold on her entire body and she let it. She had a feeling she had to be sober for this. "Did they bring back the supplier's head?"

"Ah," Shizune cleared her throat, "one of them, you could say." After a moment and Tsunade's cocking of the eyebrow, Shizune continued. "They also brought something else Tsunade-sama." Shizune slowly walked away to the door of the Hokage's office, not waiting for the dismissal. Tsunade dismissed the idea of arrogance as it meant this was urgent. 

Tsunade watched as Tenten and Lee entered her office -not taking into account their serious and slightly relieved expressions- and they seemed perfectly okay to her. It was the moment Hyuga Neji encased himself in an aura of happiness -this contrasted greatly with the smug half-grin upon his lips- that Tsunade had herself sighing. If not for that, then the woman he held in his arms. That tell-tale dark blue (if not for the sunset, it would surely be black) hair that almost reached Neji's ankles or the hands that Tsunade recognized as the exact ones she had led across a patient's wound. "You... didn't..."

"I stated that I would." He hugged her a little tighter almost as if he believed Tsunade was going to take his cousin away. "I knew she would not be dead and I found her." He seemed like a small child telling their mother of the latest accomplishment and she didn't want to be the one to bring him from that. 

Tsunade looked over at the passed out teen. "Is she stable?"

"Hai. She has been passed out for over a day, Tsunade-sama."

"Neji." She took a deep breath when he stood a little straighter. "Take her to T&I. Make sure no one sees you with her. Have only Ibiki tend to her." She could feel all of the stares going back and forth from the young thought-to-be-deceased heiress to herself. She stood strong despite and would stick to her position. If Hinata lasted this long, she would last a bit longer, and she herself needed to process the situation -with the help of a lot of liquor.

Neji slightly gaped, aghast at his order. "Tsunade-sama, but... it's Hinata and not-"

"I know how you feel, Neji." Tsunade slightly lowered the glare she had been delivering to him. "We all know, but think for a second, Hyuga. Look past your feelings and realize how ironic is it that she has been thought to be dead all these years only to be found by you. Too coincidental for measures not to be taken. We cannot let a liability or a maybe danger to the village roam around our citizens." She reached over to pick up her glass with one hand and rubbed her temple with the other. "Take her to T&I and then leave." 

Neji huffed, obviously angered, but did as he told and he stormed out of the room, taking most of the heavy aura with him.

"Shizune, follow him and come back later on a report of her well-being." Once Shizune had bowed and exited the room, a heavy silence filled the room as no one wanted to speak for a while. "Well, am I going to get a mission report or are you just going to stare at me?"

Lee stepped forward and recalled their mission, what they found, how they found Hinata. She found herself drowning in it. She could hear he was talking; however, it wasn't really registering. During his tale, he placed a slightly green bag upon the Hokage's desk and stepped back from it. "Proof we have completed our youthful mission, Tsunade-sama!" 

She poked at it with the bottom edge of her glass. "What... is this?"

Head tilted to the side, Lee answered, as if she should have already know. "Proof of our mission completion. The youthful officer detaining young Hinata was kind enough to give us the bag it was held in."

Tsunade grimaced to herself as she cautiously opened it up and reached in to pull out the plastic container holding... a man's genitals. She scowled and quickly placed it harshly away from her. "That was not the head I was asking for Lee. You think this is a joke?"

He nodded. "No, Tsunade-sama, I do not; however, it was not us who did this." He thought to himself for just a second, then nodded again.

When he did not continue, she slammed her hand upon her desk, the slap echoing throughout the room. "Who did it?"

"It was already in Hinata's bag, Tsunade-sama," Tenten piped in quickly. She had been listening and stepped in right before Tsunade punched Lee's lights out. "It's most likely that Hinata collected the... proof herself."

Tsunade did not answer right away. She took a long drag of the golden brown liquid and grimaced as it burned the back of her throat. She paused, letting it calm her down, and exhaled softly. "Is that all?"

Lee shook his head while Tenten stepped forward. "There's another object inside the bag Tsunade-sama. You probably could not tell because she had her eyes closed but Hinata..." Tenten watched as Tsunade once again reached inside the bag to pull someone out only to this time remove a jar from it.  "...she had her eyes removed."

Two pale orbs stared back at Tsunade as she cursed. "Kuso(1)."

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It was the middle of the night and he watched the moon hang right above him. If he was paying attention to it, he may have taken a moment to admire its pale color, yet he was admiring the pale complexion of the one he held. He wanted to trace the scars on her cheeks, the disappearing bruise upon her neck. He wanted to take all of her scars upon himself because someone like her deserved none of them.

He wasn't there. He was powerless as one day she smiled at him and another she was gone and out of his touch. Before she was gone, they were growing quite close. He could see that drop of fear (because no matter how many times she told him otherwise, he knew that she still feared his hatred) in her eyes; even he was inclined to shy away from her touch for a part of him felt he did not deserve the healing her hands provided. 

Now he did not know if she would be the same. No, that was a foolish way of thinking. He knew she would be different -they all would be different- yet he held out hope she could still be the same girl who braided daisies into his hair and cleaned his wounds when his pride neglected him to do so. 

He took his time heading to the secluded location of T&I because he wanted her to himself. Neji knew she would be taken from him -all over again- and he didn't know when he would be able to see her again. From the way Tsunade was talking, it seemed as though they were going to treat her as a missing nin, or even, as humorous as the thought was, a traitor. He couldn't fathom why Tsunade didn't allow him to take Hinata back to the Hyuga compound; a place where no one could take her from him again.

He held her even tighter and placed a kiss upon her unmarked forehead.  

***

"Well, until the Head of T&I can see her, what's your verdict?"

"It is, in fact, Hinata Hyuga. The blood tests came back positive from the ones we obtained back in her Genin days." Shizune slightly shifted her weight in the seat. "There are many damages to her body, the main one being her lack of eyes, scars of lacerations on her back and inner thighs, along with scars on her ankles and wrists, most likely from chains or rope or something of that sort. There were fractures bones, but they have healed; although, we may have to break them again as they didn't heal in the best possible way. These bones are located in the right ulna, along with her left shoulder and left foot and her cheekbone. There is also-"

"You can just send me a report of all that Shizune. Just give me anything big I need to worry about."

"Hai (2), um, the tests I ran on her blood... there was an overwhelming amount of drugs in her system, the one most prominent would be cocaine." Shizune continued even after the Hokage slammed her cup on her desk. "However, there is something most worrisome, Hokage-sama."

"Just tell me Shizune!"

"Her left ovary is gone? Um, it looks as if it were destroyed."

"What do you mean? Be specific."

"Like someone stabbed her, and twisted."

"Kami..." Pale hands rubbed her temples. "Get me more sake. Now!"

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(1)Kuso= crap, shit, bullshit

(2) Hai= yes

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SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAP

I hope y'all liked the penis jokes I was using in the beginning... cuz you know, bring back a head, but hinata decided to bring the other one- no? okay.

So this story is now my priority, but don't let that fool you... Priority means I have this open more and I work on it more, but when inspiration isn't coming full-force, I literally write one sentence and leave. Like that sentence where Tsunade curses??? Yeah, that took me an hour smh 

Also, I'm really mad because I had like 1,500 words written for a requested naruhinasasu in my one shots book and omfg.... I FORGOT TO SAVE IT IN WORD AND NOW I CANT FIND IT AND IVE BEEN SEARCHING AND I AM SO SAD