Whispers In The Dark

Candy Apple

It has been two weeks and Hinata noticed that Naruto has been avoiding her. She also noticed that his clothes have blood staining it. It didn't bother her much but this amount was not normal. She decided to follow him one evening after he excused himself from her presence. Kakashi and Sai never told her what exactly had happened to Naruto but if what had almost happened to her happened to him...

He was there for her.

This time it's her turn.

Now if only she can find him, the stubborn blond!

She finally located him at the familiar waterfall where he had a picture of her naked. Hinata blushed at the memory. She should have known better than to just train in only her skin. At least as she grew older, she grew some sensibility and started carrying a swimming suit. She spied as he strip naked and blushed at the sight. But she wondered why he stripped and that was answered when he took out a kunai. With horrified eyes, she watched as he started to systematically skin his body.

She rushed out, "Naruto-kun!"

He turned; eyes wide as he stared at her, the bloody kunai dropped from his hand. He stood there in the water with not a stitch on his firm body with bloody wound sluggishly healing. She knew Kurama won't have allowed him to be wounded for long so that meant that he was actively stopping the Kyuubi from healing him.

She reached him but he stepped back with wide blue eyes filled with horror, disgust and shame as he wrapped his arms around his body. She slowed and smiled gently at him, "It's okay. I already put two and two together. It isn't your fault, Naruto-kun,"

He shook his head, "I'm a guy! I'm a guy! This thing shouldn't have been happening to me! Guys don't get raped! It's not possible...not possible..." He kneeled into the water, his face broken as he kept rubbing at his skin.

Hinata knelt beside him, ignoring the fact that her clothes get wet with her action, "Naruto...you're human...just because you have a different gender doesn't mean something like that can't happen to you too..."

Her heart broke for him.

It wasn't rare but usually it was by another man.

Naruto...was quite possibly raped by the Genjutsu Mistress. She heard the simplified report that he was 'punishing and vicious with the Genjutsu Mistress' when they reported to Tsunade.

She had always known Naruto to be weak to Genjutsu. She had worried when she learned that one of the people that were part of the trafficking circle was a Genjutsu Mistress. Self-taught, yes, and sometimes those people made for a much more dangerous opponent because they don't do things the traditional way. Naruto had a bad match with her, added with the drugs and poisons and aphrodisiac...

Hinata had studied the woman's profile after the mission. From the evidence they had compiled, she had a taste for pretty young men and Naruto was right up her alley. The reason the trafficker targeted dancers was because they're civilians and grew up pretty. They made for the perfect products for high end brothels and would sell for the highest bidder. Their clients were usually people with taste. Sometimes they were commissioned to catch a particular person for their perverted use.

The girl that was used was one such target. So breaking her down was prioritized over the others, though Hinata was apparently a crowd favorite. Not the kind of favor that she wanted. She was glad that Neji got to her in time. But Kakashi and Sai didn't get to Naruto in time. In fact, it sounded like Kurama had to struggle for a while to get the drug out of Naruto's system before he could fully take over. By the time he did, it was too late...

Naruto started scratching as his skin but this time he was too distracted that Kurama could heal him instantly. She grabbed his hand and he pulled back as though burned, "Don't! Don't touch me! I don't...not you...I don't want to...you'll get dirty too..."