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They went downstairs and joined Genma, Sai and Ino in the dining room. Ino waved to the girls, “Hinata, Tenten, come give me a hand.” They followed her through a door on the other side of the room.
“I…couldn’t sleep, so I started some breakfast earlier. There are some mushrooms and onions in the bin over there. And I think I saw some tea cups up in that cabinet.” She pointed and Hinata went for the vegetables. Tenten got the cups down and started to assemble a tray.
“Also, over on the counter there are two small pots of ointment. You might find it useful.” Hinata blushed and Tenten giggled. Ino looked over her shoulder at them.
“Um, Chouji and I couldn’t wait all that long, either.” She cleared her throat. “He got a little overzealous once with his partial expansion jutsu.” She blushed a bit herself and muttered, “I don’t know why he thought he’d need it…” She shook her head. “Anyway, it doesn’t take much.”
Ino cracked some eggs into a pan and added the mushrooms and onions. Hinata dished up the rice that had already been cooking and they brought the food out to the dining room to the guys.
Hinata sat next to Neji and served him first, before getting her own plate. When he realized what she’d done, he leaned over. “You don’t have to do that.” He whispered.
She smiled, “I know. I want to.” She looked up at him and the smile she gave him was breathtaking.
Genma cleared his throat. “If you guys are through…” Hinata blushed and turned to face Genma. “Thanks for making the food. Now, I showed you guys the two spots yesterday that Sai found while he was overhead. We’re going to check those out today. Sai, you go with the girls to this one,” He pointed to the first of the two locations. “I’m going to go with Lee and Neji to the other. I really hope we find something soon.”
They ate quickly and Tenten grabbed Lee and sent him to the kitchen with the dishes. Sai followed and Neji picked up the tea cups. Hinata jumped up to help, but he pushed on her shoulder firmly, “I can do this.” He kissed her forehead and took the tray into the kitchen.
Within a few minutes, they were ready to go. Neji pulled her off to the side. “Please take care. I know you’re more than capable, but I’ll worry. Come back to me.” He kissed her softly.
“You, too.” She smiled at his words before hugging him fiercely.

They took off and heading toward the appropriate spots. Tenten hung back and pulled on Hinata’s arm. “So….did you?” Tenten actually blushed.
“Um…yeah.” Hinata was sure her face was bright red. She looked over her shoulder. “Did you?”
“Mm hm.” She giggled. “Three times.”
“Us too.” Hinata couldn’t believe she was talking about this. “No, wait. Four if you count the shower this morning.”
Ino leaned over, “Wow, four the first night?! Maybe I should have tried for Neji instead.” She grinned wickedly. Hinata blushed even brighter but grinned.
All three girls giggled. “Oh my, I shouldn’t be talking like this!” She sighed. “I never realized he felt this way, though. I always thought it was just duty. You know, he’s supposed to be my protector – Branch house and all that.”
Tenten snorted. “I doubt that. I think that’s why he pushed me away.” She smiled. “I’m glad he did, though. Now I’ve got Lee.” She blushed again. “Oh, my, he’s got stamina.”
Sai, stone-faced, turned to the girls. “We’re almost there.” All three giggled, but got down to business. Sai pointed to the area he’d seen from the sky. “This is the spot. There were two people out here yesterday, just standing around. A minute later they disappeared.”
Hinata shifted her focus. She started analyzing the ground and turned to the others. “Don’t move. Let me see what I can figure out.” She closed her eyes, focused her chakra and whispered, “Byakugan!”
Again, she saw tracks, some fresh some really old. There were at least two sets recently and, oddly, they looked very much like the two she’d seen on the other side of the village. Focusing, she inspected the trees and as she looked up, she saw the chakra signatures. Like yesterday, they stopped dead in front of the tree. But at the base of the tree, this time, she saw another crumpled piece of paper. Another seal. She picked it up and took it back to Tenten, Sai and Ino.
“Another one. This is different, though again, I’m no expert. We need Genma.” She looked to Sai.
“It’s not much further to the other spot. Only a couple of kilometers. This way,” he pointed and they followed.
Within a few minutes, they’d caught up to the others. Hinata looked first at Neji who caught her eyes and smiled, then she took the seal over to Genma. “Yet another one. This is even different from the other one.”
Genma looked it over. “Another transport seal. But not a seal like for long term transport. This one is very short. I wonder…” He pulled out of his pack a copy of the seal he’d given to Tsunade and compared the two. “Not the same. This is a transport seal, though, no doubt. Hmm.” He scratched his head.
“I think the lab is under us. I think this seal transports people to the labs below. But if I’m wrong….” Genma paused.
“I will go, Genma-san!” Lee stood at attention and saluted. Tenten looked worried.
“Not so fast. If anyone goes, then there should be more than one of us. I should have remembered earlier.” He pulled radios out of his pack. “I’ve only got two. Neji, take one. I’ll use the other. You and Lee go down. If it’s clear, I’ll follow with the rest.”
Neji squeezed Hinata’s hand and took the radio and set it up. He took her hand back and kissed it before stepping over by the tree with Lee.
Genma took out the brush and ink and a scroll. He drew the symbols, then formed the hand signs. He looked up at the guys. “Radio the second you land.”
Neji nodded and Genma put his hand down on the seal. Neji and Lee disappeared.
Tenten squealed, but a second later they clearly heard an “all clear” over the radio.
The other four stepped up as Genma made the hand signs again. “Let’s go.” And he slammed his hand down on the seal.
* * *
It smelled. Horrible. That’s the first thing Hinata noticed when they landed. Well, landed wasn’t quite right. One minute they were on the surface, standing on the grass, the next they were in this damp, dim tunnel. That smelled. She wrinkled her nose.
Neji took her hand. “Okay, Neji, Hinata, what do you see?” Genma asked.
They activated their bloodline trait and started looking around. Hinata inspected the immediate area, while Neji concentrated on distance. “Too many tracks here to see anything. There must be at least ten people moving about here. The chakra signatures are crazy. Neji?”
“Down this hall to the west, I can see two. Guards, I think. Beyond them, the hallway splits. It goes some distance and I can’t see anything further.”
“Okay. Let’s take out the guards. Let’s go.” Ino fell behind the group. Genma took point, Lee right behind him. Tenten pulled out her first scroll and had her hands full of kunai.
Neji and Hinata came next and Sai brought up the rear. Seven people, and not a whisper of sound as they moved down the hallway. Genma looked over his shoulder and nodded at Tenten. She launched two kunai and the guards were down silently before they even knew what hit them.
“Sai.” The group moved aside and Sai pulled out his scroll. He made a few hand signs and his mice took off. Concentrating, his lips moved silently. A minute later, his mice came back and he rolled up the scroll.
“Two guards at the end of each hall. Then each hall splits in two.” Genma was drawing a quick map in his head.
“Okay, Lee, Neji and I will go south. Sai, you and the girls go north. Maintain radio silence until you’re sure you’re alone.” He handed his radio to Hinata. She took it and set it up.
“Test” she said quietly.
Genma rolled his eyes. “Either speak up or turn your mic up a bit.”
Hinata blushed and did so. “Test?”
Neji nodded. “That’s better.”
They each went their separate ways. As they approached the fork in the north hall, Ino, Sai and Hinata stood back. Tenten pulled her scroll out again and turned to Hinata.
Hinata activated Byakugan again and motioned to Tenten. One left and one right. Tenten nodded and launched the kunai. Sai knelt again and released his mice. Those to that went to the right came back right away. The others took another minute before returning. “Okay, there’s an empty lab at the end of the hall to the right and two more labs to the left before the hallway intersects with another one.”
He drew a quick map and pointed. “This one, I think, leads to where Genma’s team will come out.”
Hinata hit the button on her radio. “Clear,” she said quietly and waited for his response.
A second later, Neji responded with , “Clear. What did you find?”
“Three labs. We haven’t gone in yet. And more hallways. It looks like this one intersects with another north-south hallway that should meet up with yours.”
“Okay. Wait.” His radio shut off for a moment. “Okay, Genma says to check the labs. We have one here, too. There’s a door at the end of the hallway, I’m not sure we can get through it. There are some nasty seals on it. We’ll follow our hallways and meet you in the other north hall. And Hinata…”
“Yes?”
“Be careful.”
“I will. You too.” Hinata turned to the first lab.
This one hadn’t been used in a while. It was large, but mostly empty, except for some tables. They moved on. They turned west and the wall on the right was solid, but the wall on the left had two doors. They paused outside the first. Sai released his mice again, but no one was inside.
This lab had jars with liquid and some things that were not recognizable to Hinata. “Organs.” Ino said. She approached one. “Hearts…lungs…that’s a liver.” She moved down the row and came to another grouping of jars. “I don’t recognize this.” She puzzled over it, before her mouth formed a small O and she stepped back hastily.
“What? What is it?” Hinata moved to her side.
“You don’t want to know. “ Ino was having trouble breathing, and she looked like she was going to be sick.
“Ino? Are you okay? You’re the medical nin, you can’t pass out on us.” Tenten helped her to the door. “What was it??”
Ino looked from one girl to the other, but couldn’t form the words.
“A fetus.” Sai was very quiet.
Both girls’ heads whipped around and stared, despite the warnings. All three quickly left the lab. That wasn’t the only lab they found it in. The next lab had more, though this time, Sai volunteered to go in for them. When he reported his findings, all three had to sit a moment to recover.
Tenten was first. “We need to keep moving.” They all agreed, but Ino was the last to stand up. “Are you okay?” She asked Ino again.
Ino shook her head, then closed her eyes. “I’m pregnant. Tsunade needed a medical nin for this mission, so I didn’t feel right saying no. But that hit me hard. Whoever is doing this…” she trailed off. “Anyway, that’s why we were pushing the wedding to get it done.” She gave a half-smile. “I didn’t want to have to alter my dress.” She took a deep breath and stood up straighter. “Let’s go.”
Hinata held her hand up first and inspected the intersection, but Neji and company were already there. They hurried to meet with them. Neji pulled her aside the second he saw her and Genma demanded, “what happened?!” Sai quietly explained.
Lee went over to Tenten, but she smiled at him. They turned to Ino and each put an arm around her. When Neji sent them a puzzled look, Hinata whispered to him. “She’s pregnant. The sight of that was horrible. I’m not…” at this she colored and her eyes flew up to Neji’s face. She saw the exact moment when he registered it, too. They weren’t…but they could be. She cleared her throat, “but that affected me, too.” She shuddered and Neji pulled her into his arms.
“It’s okay. We’ll figure out what’s going on.” He kissed her temple and rubbed her back to soothe her. There was the sound of barely restrained fury in his voice.
“Yes. We will.” Genma sounded angry. They looked over at him. “Okay. We’re sticking together. We found another lab on the other side, but it’s currently empty. This room,” he pointed to the door on the western side of the wall, “looks to be storage, but there’s another hall that leads around. We’ll check that out, then try to open the seal on the door at the end of this hall.”
They crossed over the hallway and continued east, watching for any other guards. They paused before it turned south and Genma looked to Sai again. Once more, he dropped to his knee and released the mice. “There’s someone in the room to the left. There’s another hall that leads off to the right and there are three more sitting at that intersection.” He stood up.
Genma reached into his pack, and pulled out his senbon. He waved at Tenten and she pulled her kunai again. The moved silently ahead of the rest and once more took the guards before they even suspected anyone was there. They turned to the door on the left. “Keep her here.” He said to Sai, aiming a look at Ino.
Ino didn’t look the least offended and stood back against the wall. Genma eased the door open.
There at a desk, asleep, was another guard. This was a library, full of books and scrolls. Genma breathed a sigh of relief. This, at least, was something he could handle.
This time, he slipped up behind the guy and woke him up. “Who are you?” The man jerked awake and opened his mouth to scream, but Genma had his hand over it. “Please don’t shout. Your friends are dead, but I may just let you live. If you cooperate. Do you understand?”
The man nodded behind Genma’s hand. Genma moved it slightly. “I’m Takahashi. I’m just a guard here. And I don’t get paid enough to get killed.” Genma snorted.
“Who do you work for?”
“I don’t know his name.” Genma pulled a needle out of his mouth and showed it to the man. He started to panic. “I really don’t! I don’t think I deal with the main guy, anyway. Just some kid. Wears round glasses, white-ish hair. Snot-nosed, if you want the truth.”
“Thank you. That wasn’t so hard, was it?” He hit the guy at the base of his skull and knocked him out. Lee carried him out and laid him in the hall. “Let’s look around quick. There might be something here. This is obviously part of what was once the sound village and it sounds like Kabuto has been here recently, but I don’t think he’s here anymore. He better hope to hell he’s never found, either.” Genma closed his eyes for a moment to regain control. “This place is big, though, so let’s hope the villagers are still here, somewhere.”
They inspected the library, but aside from a lot of transcripts of Orochimaru’s nasty and numerous experiments, there was very little information. Genma found a map of the portion of the village they were in, and spread it out on the desk. “Okay, we’ve been here, here and here.” He pointed to the three labs that the girls had been through. “This was a lab at one point, but it was empty.” He pointed to a third, much larger room. “This looks to be one large room down here, but we don’t know for sure. There are two doors leading in. One from the first north/south running hallway and another from the second. This is the library and there,” he pointed to a room adjoining the library, “is labeled storage. Not sure I want to know what it’s storing, but we should look.
Neji moved to the door and, using Byakugan, inspected it. “No one on the other side.” He opened the door and went through. Lee followed, but in a minute they were back. “Nothing anyone needs to see.”
Genma nodded and they went back out to the hallway. Turning south, they followed the hallway back east until it turned right to the large room they’d seen on the map. More seals over the door.
“Stand back. This could get ugly.” Neji pulled Hinata against him, back against the opposite wall and Lee did the same with Tenten. Sai stood with Ino, looking ready to grab her, if necessary.
Genma inspected the seals carefully. He made a few hand signs, then removed a couple of them. Neji and Hinata tried to see through the door, but the seals made it impossible, even with their bloodline trait. Genma continued to work, removing one or two seals at a time. He got it down to two, but the last two proved to be very difficult.
“I’ve never seen this one before.” He sighed. He tried a number of different types of releases, but they held fast. “Damn. Neji? Hinata?” They both shook their heads. Finally, he got mad and kicked the door. At that moment, he heard crying from the other side of the door. “Shit. Someone is in there. Three guesses who…”
He went back to work on the seals and managed to get one more off. These seals were testing his patience. He closed his eyes and concentrated. His eyes flew open, he made three more signs and the last seal finally released. He looked over at Neji and Hinata and they activated their Byakugan again.
“Holy crap! There are so many of them.” Genma opened the door carefully. It certainly looked like the whole village. There were a few cries, but then one man ventured out from the crowd.
“Are you from Konoha?” He asked timidly.
Genma walked into the room. It was almost half the size of the entire village that he now realized was above them. How were they supposed to get out of there? “Hai. We are ninja of the Leaf. I am Genma. Please, calm down.” He looked pleadingly at Hinata and she walked forward, and smiled at the older man.
“I am Hinata. Please, we will help you, but you must all calm down. We will get help to get you all out of here, but it’s going to take a bit of time. Are any missing?”
The elderly man nodded. “We were separated when we got here. There were a few of our daughters that were taken aside. We…haven’t seen them. Are they okay?”
Hinata took a sharp breath. How was she to explain this? “I-I-I’m sorry, we haven’t seen any others.” She felt sick. She looked over at Neji and his face mirrored her anxiety.
The older man looked sad, but nodded. “I was afraid so…”
Genma looked at the man, “stay here. Right now, as far as I can tell, this is the safest place for you. We’ll be back soon.” He stepped out of the room to face the others. “Ino, I need you and Tenten to go in and start checking over the villagers. They don’t look hurt, but there are a lot of them and there’s no way to tell from just looking. Sai, send out your mice. We need an exit and we need it now. We’re directly under the Fuuma clan village and we don’t dare take Konoha’s usually escape route.” He chuckled at Sai’s confused expression. “Explosives.”
Sai knelt one more time and released his mice.
“Neji, Hinata, can you see anything else?” They looked at each other, activated Byakugan and turned to start inspecting everything they could.
They both shook their heads. “No. Nothing.”
Sai looked up. “All of the corridors dead end.”
“That is not such a good word to use, Sai-kun.” Lee said. Sai looked confused again, but Genma just waved it off.
“We better get back to the library. Maybe the guard is awake and we can ask him. Otherwise, there has to be some information. Might even be another seal – an exit like those that got us down here. But I can’t just start guessing.”
Ino and Tenten went into the large room with the elderly man and started looked over the villagers. The rest headed back to the library.
The guard was still out cold and Hinata scolded Genma. “If you hadn’t knocked him so hard, he’d be awake now.” Genma made a face at her and began his search. The others weren’t sure what they were looking for, but they looked anyway. They’d been there for close to two hours before anyone paused.
Sai was the first to speak. “It wouldn’t be the same seal, would it?”
Genma started to shake his head but stopped. He looked up at Neji and then to Hinata. “It couldn’t be that easy, could it?” He cleared the desk of the texts he’d been looking at and pulled the crumpled seal out. “Hmm. It just says. “transport” which, really, could be any kind of transport, but what….” He trailed off.
Lee volunteered again. “I will be a test subject!” He saluted again. Neji elbowed him. “What?”
He leaned over, “Don’t be so rash with your life. Someone else is depending on you to be there, now.” Lee blushed and nodded.
Sai looked between them. “I could go. If it’s clear, I’ll head up and call for help right away. If that IS the only way out, it would take a very long time to take all of the villagers out. There has to be a better way.”
Genma nodded slowly. “All right. But since we are under the village. We’ll need to find one of the corridors, preferably the one we came in. I don’t want to risk transporting you into a wall in the village. Lee – let Tenten and Ino know what’s going on. Neji, Hinata, you’re with us.”
* * *
It turned out to be just that easy. Genma was angry with himself for not thinking of it sooner, but Neji managed to convince him that nothing about this mission was normal. There’s no reason to beat himself up.
They returned to the main room and spoke with the elderly man. “We’re waiting on word from our teammate, but we should be able to begin moving people soon.” The man looked very grateful and shuffled back to his people. He spread the word of what was going on and the mood suddenly seemed to lift.
Hinata went over to see Ino. “Is it bad?”
Ino shook her head. “It looks like we got here before anyone got seriously hurt. It’s just a few minor scrapes…and a lot of hunger. Apparently, Kabuto didn’t think it important enough to feed them.” She looked very angry about that. “There’s nothing I can do about that right now.”
“Okay,” Genma said. “It’ll be a while before we hear from Konoha. And even longer until we can get some help. I have no idea how many people I can transport at once. But I think it might be worth a shot. If we can at least get them up to the surface, we can start moving them back home. Here’s what we need to do. Neji, you take Hinata and go to the surface. As soon as I hear from Sai, I’ll have him meet up with you. I need you to see if you can find this room from above ground and if so, perhaps we can find a safe place to transport them there.” Neji and Hinata nodded.
* * *
They got lucky. Apparently, the southern end of the compound was about half a kilometer south of the city gates. Interestingly, it looked like it was under a very large clearing. As Orochimaru didn’t do anything by accident, they were left with the idea that it was planned. They counted their blessings and moved out of the way. It was in Genma’s hands now, literally.
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