Lavender Love Beauty

Chapter 46

As the group of ninja looked around on the destroyed earth for signs of Sasuke, Kakashi wondered what exactly happened between the two brothers.

"Man, what kind of battle would have caused this?" Kiba asked stupidly since he knew who fought.

"Where's Sasuke?" Naruto asked turning to Hinata who immediately looked around for another chakra. After a few moments, Hinata shook her head sadly.

"There are no other signs of any other chakra besides our's, if he was here he's gone now.." Hinata said sadly as she watched her lover's pained face look down in the rain.

"Damn it, how come I can never get close to Sasuke..!" Naruto said angrily hitting his fist against a broken wall.

"Naruto-kun.." Hinata went to walk over to him but Sakura stopped her.

"Leave him be, I'm sorry Hinata but this is something you can't fix.." Sakura nodded sadly.

"Sakura-chan.," Hinata said quietly.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Naruto kept repeating his words over again while he repeatedly hit the wall causing his knuckles to bleed.

"Naruto." He stopped at Kakashi's warning tone, a hint of disappointment and anger let Naruto know his sensei was just as upset.

"The mission failed, we are returning back to Konoha," Kakashi ordered and Naruto was the first to walk away with a pained face, and all his friends could do was look at him sadly and follow.

Hinata watched as her teammate Kiba looked at Naruto with a pained expression. Suddenly Kiba raced up to Naruto and slapped his back playfully.

"We'll definitely get Sasuke back next time!" Kiba said which seemed to make Naruto feel a little better.

"You're right!" Naruto said smiling, Hinata knew he was faking it and she wanted to help him. She just didn't know how to, she never lost a teammate before.

"Naruto-kun.," Hinata whispered sadly.

As the group walked through the rain forest Hinata stayed in the back. She never really like crowds. She didn't like attention either, the only attention she really liked was when Naruto held her hand or told her she loved him.

Hinata began thinking it was her fault that they lost Sasuke. If she'd been keeping an eye on his chakra when they encountered that man with the mask then she could have seen where he had gone or if he was still there. Hinata didn't know what to do, she'd never felt so useless in her entire life.

Naruto was still in the front of the group with Kiba and Sakura by his side.

"I'm going to walk with Shino," Kiba said and Naruto nodded as he watched his friend wait for the bug user. Naruto then looked behind him to see Hinata with her hands formed into a fist, and tears streaming down her face along with a pained expression.

Sakura seemed to see Hinata too because she patted Naruto on the back and Naruto looked into her green emerald eyes.

"I'm going to talk to Kakashi-sensei." She smiled and he nodded. Naruto then stopped in his tracks letting everyone pass him until he was with Hinata.

Naruto was surprised when she passed him so he rushed his steps to catch up to her then grabbed one of her fists which seemed to get her attention.

"N-Naruto-kun..?" Hinata asked confused.

"Hinata-chan what's wrong?" Naruto asked.

"I-It's my fault, w-we lost Sasuke-kun.," Hinata said as her tears slid down her cheek.