My Dark Guardian Angel

Hopeless

Chapter Seventeen:

-Konoha, break of dawn-

It has been hours since they ran from Konoha and the group barely got any rest, only a fifteen minute break when they had to subdue Sasuke from going back to get Ino. Hinata felt her heart shatter tremendously when she saw that Sasuke was unresponsive and stoic, completely ignoring not just Naruto...everyone. The most he'd do to communicate was nod slightly and even then it was only towards his sensei and teammate, knowing that they silently grieved as well. As of now, Naruto and Kiba were at both her sides with herself on Kurama since she had twisted her ankle from saving Shikamaru when a chunin performed a dangerous fire justu aimed for the Nara. Her hands were glowing a beautiful shade of green as they hovered over her injured ankle with Kiba asking, "How's your ankle?" She paused thoughtfully, rotated her ankle, and flinched slightly in pain before informing, "I will have to lay off of my ankle for a week; two weeks at the most." Kurama frowned, his crimson eyes rolling over his shoulder to look at her, before offering,

"I can heal you."

Hinata frowned slightly, and was about to decline when Kakashi intervened with his mismatched eyes boring into Hinata, "No, Hinata, take his offer. There's only so much you could do as a healer, and as a concerned father, I want you to take his offer." Hinata opened her mouth to protest, but when she saw the look he gave her, she sagged her shoulders in defeat, her lilac eyes shifting towards Kurama who looked at her expectingly. "If it wouldn't be of any trouble," She said which made Kurama chuckle as his lone tail wrapped around her injured ankle lightly. "No, it wouldn't, kitten." He replied before sending his chakra into her ankle, healing it as they journeyed by tree.

"Oi, Asuma-sensei!"

Asuma hummed in response to his Nara student calling him and patiently waited until said student caught up with him. "Yeah?" He had hummed, his cigarette dangling between his lips as he had his hands casually shoved in his pockets, as he glanced over at Shikamaru. "Only the Sandaime knew that we were going to Abgurd...surely he must've told Konoha that we were going on a training trip?" Shikamaru's question caught everyone's attention with their eyes now boring into the back of his head. Damned kid, gonna be the death of me rather than the cigarettes... Asuma huffed inwardly, although, he has a very valid point... He smirked outwardly with his gaze kept on a curious Shikamaru. "He has, he informed Jerica-sama of it." He then frowned as he looked on ahead, "But someone must've told the villagers and shinobi the truth."

"But who would do such a thing?"

Lee asked, his eyebrows furrowed in question, as everyone pondered on it. Shikamaru's mind was reeling, who would? He thought to himself, who would do this? He heard Asuma sigh softly beside him, "That's what I've been thinking, Lee, and Im stumped." Shikamaru looked at his sensei in shock, he was never stuck, he always had ideas on things and he was mostly right about them, so for this happening...

"Oi! Looks like the king of asswipes is finally here!"

Kurama grew a tick mark as he harshly retaliated, "Says the walking piece of shit no one likes!"

"Wanna say that to my face, asslicker?!"

"I'd rather fuck Orochimaru than see your ugly ass face!"

"Go suck a dick!"

"I'd prefer cheesecake!"

"Bitch!"

"I ain't a bitch, bitch!"

"You got a lot of nerve calling me a 'bitch', pet!"

"'Cause I ain't a female dog, fucktard!"

"Come say that to my face!"

"Nah, 'cause if I do, you're gonna run off with your tail between your legs, ya little pussy!"

"Oh FUCK NO! I am NOT a pussy!"

"Well, Matatabi has more balls than you ever will!"

"Douchebag! I outta get her shit and shove it in your mouth!"

"And I outta nuture you! Oh wait! I forgot, you don't have a dick!"

"MOTHER FUCKER!"

"I don't fuck mothers, baka!"

"SON OF A BITCH!"

"Yes I am! And so are you!"

"Ima raccoon, fucking baka!"

"Yeah, a raccoon-dog! Or rather, a raccoon-cat!"

"OH FUCK TO THE NO!"

The banter between the two Tailed Beasts raged on as the group of fifteen met with the Suna Siblings with Shukaku and Kurama literally barking at each other. Gaara sighed exasperately at the Ichibi, gave Hinata and Naruto a sympathetic look, before looking at the thirteen. "Looks like we crossed roads sooner than I have hoped," He mused dejectedly, his sea-foam eyes wandering over the group, lingering on Tenten for just a bit before shifting elsewhere. Kurenai nodded, "It seems so."