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TWENTY-ONE

"Naruto! Put the gun down!" Sakura yelled.

"You're not a murderer, Uzumaki..." Hidan scoffed, "hell, you don't got a single bullet on there, do ya?"

"No." Naruto replied bluntly, "I have two."

"Naruto..." Hinata whispered.

"Let her go... And everyone gets out of here alive." Naruto ordered slowly.

"Oh please, you think we'll fall for that?" Hidan laughed, "can you do a friend a favor and take care of them? They're all yours if you so please."

"No prob." The dealer handed Hinata to his partner as he took a running start towards Naruto.

Naruto was ready to block himself, but hesitated when he saw the guy pull out a switchblade. He froze, but someone ran in front of him and blocked the blade.

"Naruto, move... You need to get to Hinata!" Sakura found one of the dealer's crowbars and used it as her means of defense.

"Thanks, Sakura." Naruto smiled and continued on.

"Now, you bastards..." Sakura looked around as the dealer stood back, and Deidara and Sasori joined him, "this is what you get for everything you've done to Hinata and Sasuke!" She cracked her knuckles and threw the first successful punch. 

The fight drew out, but Naruto only had his sights set on Hinata, who was being dragged out to the dealers' van. He tried to run faster, but there was nothing he could do anymore as soon as he heard the pop of a gun and the sudden light-headed feeling.

"Naruto!!"

"Why... Why are you screaming like that, Sakura? I'm... Fine..."

His vision was becoming blurred, and when he turned his head to look down at his back, there was blood everywhere. He'd been shot.

He fell onto his side, the grass stained with blood, then felt Sakura trying to stop the bleeding with her own shirt, but he didn't care. He didn't feel any pain at all. He only watched as the navy blue van with a single silver strip drove off before he went out cold.

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"You're kidding me... Naruto?"

"Uh-huh. The kid seems to be everywhere these days."

"Yeah..."

The two Uchiha stood in the hallway of the hospital, waiting to see a certain criminal.

When they were finally allowed in, they found Hidan sitting in his hospital bed, "hey, Obito. And if it isn't Itachi Uchiha. You've finally got the balls to come face me, you little shit?"

Itachi only stared at him. He honestly didn't give a crap what Hidan threatened to do, and what was the dead giveaway was the pair of handcuffs that held him to his hospital bed, "so, the cops got you?"

"Yeah. If it weren't for your little bro's slut..."

"Hinata?"

Hidan cackled, "you gotta be shitting me... Hinata?! No, that pink-haired chick."

"Sakura?" Obito asked.

Itachi looked at his cousin, "you know her?"

"Yeah, she's in Sasuke's class. I've seen her. She, Naruto, and Hinata came over once to play with a frisbee in their backyard. You were at work with Uncle Fugaku." Obito explained, and Itachi only nodded in understanding.