Naruto: Hinata Hyuuga/Kabuto Yakushi
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Hinata Hyuuga/Kabuto Yakushi
Theme set: Beta
Rating: R, for violence and some moderately explicit sexual content.
#01 - Walking
Kabuto keeps his promise and takes her on a walking tour of the Five Countries, even though there's very little left to see since the Kyuubi (she cannot think of it, or Naruto without a bright, piercing pain) raged across the world and left behind ash and sorrow in equal measure.
#02 - Waltz
It's not even really circling, but a slow, cautious sidestep that Hinata adopts for her dealings with him: unfortunately, Kabuto is far more nimble than she is, but that doesn't mean she can't try.
#03 - Wishes
It draws him up short when Hinata asks what will you do after Orochimaru and though he feigns a cheerful (and slightly sinister) certainty that his lord will endure forever, he has to admit that the idea hope that the Sannin will not end up ruling all his days sometimes leaves him awake at night.
#04 - Wonder
Why is the word that is constantly on her mind but never allowed to pass her lips, because she's sure that any answer she receives from him will be as false as his kindness almost certainly is.
#05 - Worry
Each "accidental" caress shows her that it's not a matter of if, but when, and each morning Hinata wakes asking herself if this will be the day she ends up in his bed.
#06 - Whimsy
Everyone in Konoha soon knows about the huge (and very expensive) bouquet of flowers left at the Hyuuga compound for Hinata's birthday, but the tiny silver foxhead charm she finds that night on her pillow is something she keeps to herself.
07 - Waste/Wasteland
Years later, Kabuto takes her back to the place where Konoha once stood and indulgently allows her to wander; she ends up kneeling in the ruins of the Hyuuga estate, turning a fragment of her mother's memorial picture over and over in her hands as her eyes burn with the tears she is no longer able to shed.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
He's curious if her tolerance for drugs and poisons extends to alcohol as well: after the first few glasses of whiskey leave her flushed and giddy, he's willing to abandon scientific inquiry for a much more interesting experiment.
#09 - War
Sasuke watches expressionless from the stands as they run and twist and dive at each other: Kabuto's chakra scalpel severs the tendons in Hinata's left leg just as her Gentle Fist bursts all the veins in his arm.
#10 - Weddings
Sakura is not the only woman in Konoha to be married to two men: Hinata claimed that distinction first.
#11 - Birthday
The 29th is two days away, but when Kabuto finds Hinata lying nearly unconscious in the woods, he decides that the best presents are the ones entirely unplanned for.
#12 - Blessing
Despite all the pain it might bring, Hinata had always looked forward to becoming a mother: now, as she sits in Otogakure, she runs her fingers along the jars of dried herbs and weighs the idea of permanent sterilization against the potential horror of giving birth to a future vessel of Orochimaru's, no matter how often Kabuto swears that the snake lord will have no more flesh and blood from him.
#13 - Bias
"So, you're into little girls now?" Misumi asks with a scowl when he catches Kabuto slipping out of her room at the hospital; he simply smirks in reply and pulls the door shut as quietly as he can so her rest won't be disturbed, knowing that no matter how much Misumi complains to Lord Orochimaru about his indifference to authority, his leader will simply smile and write the matter off as another of cute Kabuto's unpredictable (and amusing) whims.
#14 - Burning
The pain she feels when she collapses at the Chuunin exams is nothing compared to the pain of the healing: his chakra purges and twists the sinews of her heart until it feels like they're on fire.
#15 - Breathing
Once Councilman Asayama falls to the ground, the ANBU takes a step forward, then stops, tilting his head to the side as if he can tell something else is in the air besides birdsong and the rustle of grass: perched high in her tree, Hinata jams a fist against her mouth, breathing as lightly as she can through her nostrils and somehow she remains unnoticed, for the man walks away after another moment, the setting sun turning his blade into an arc of pure light as he plunges it into Asayama's side.
#16 - Breaking
"Oh, yes, please. Hinata-chan, more," Kabuto almost moans as he squirms in his bonds and Hinata smiles softly as she takes her mouth away from his cock.
#17 - Belief
You could get Hinata to do almost anything as long as you framed it as a challenge for her to overcome, Kabuto muses, and grins into her hair as he cups his hand around the soft, heavy weight of her right breast and squeezes.
#18 - Balloon
The festival lights catch on the bunches of balloons and turn them into vast, shimmering fields of brilliant color, but Hinata can neither take joy in them or her pretty new kimono, because her arm is tucked firmly through Kabuto's and Otogakure is here not to celebrate but to assassinate a man.
#19 - Balcony
Airy and pleasant it may be, but the wooden floor of the balcony creaks in a way that suggests imminent collapse, though Kabuto is too distracted by the sight of Hinata's sun-warmed thighs to pay it much mind.
#20 - Bane
Sasuke-kun has no idea that Kabuto has a vial of untraceable poison with his name on it, and if the little brat stalks in to ruin Kabuto's quiet moments with Hinata one more time, it's going into his soup.
#21 - Quiet
Dr. Haniwa arrives with his customary scowl and a bitten-out request that Kabuto keep it down: Hinata's screams are keeping the recovering patients from their rest.
#22 - Quirks
While Hinata recuperates from the birth, Neji takes Hanabi aside to voice his concerns about the possibility of mental instability being passed from father to daughter; he thinks their conversation has gone unheard by anyone else until the father asks--smiling--why Neji isn't worried about Hinako inheriting the Hyuuga "pompous kin-murdering unfeeling bastard genes" as well and Neji doesn't talk to him for a week.
#23 - Question
"You can't deny that any children we have would be quite lovely," Kabuto tells her, glasses glinting, "and with my own skills paired with the Byakugan, stronger than almost any other shinobi around...after all, isn't strength the only thing that the Hyuuga really care about, in the end?
#24 - Quarrel
Neji and Kabuto lie on their respective sides in the great bed and toss volleys at each other over the slim divider of her body until Hinata threatens to chain the two of them together and walk away.
#25 - Quitting
"So, it looks like the great Kabuto Yakushi isn't infallible after all. I'd say she's found a way to escape you," Haniwa says, his tone dry and snide, when Hinata fails to come out of her coma on schedule; though at his side, Kabuto scarcely pays attention to the old man and can only look down at her still body, stunned with disbelief that she'd give up so soon.
#26 - Jump
Without her chakra she's confined to the ground and she watches in quiet resentment as Kabuto and Sasuke leap through the trees while she walks sedately behind them.
#27 - Jester
As long as Lord Orochimaru thinks Hinata to be nothing more than an amusing toy of little consequence, she's relatively safe with him, and so Kabuto makes sport of the girl at every opportunity to keep the illusion intact.
#28 - Jousting
If Kabuto is quiet during sex, she is quieter: she swallows her moans and whimpers and he does the same, each striving for perfect silence as they try to break the other's control.
#29 - Jewel
After her funeral pyre burns down to embers, Kabuto retreats back to his office, wiping the soot and sweat away from his face; once inside, he bolts the door and sets the traps, heaves the stones covering his hiding place aside, and digs with careful hands through his secret stores until he reaches a heavily locked, temperature-controlled box; he opens it with the first smile he's allowed himself since her death and a touch approaching reverence because here are the crown jewels of his collection, the blood and tissue samples clandestinely taken from her against such an eventuality and as he caresses the vial containing some of her ova with one hand and sets out the equipment necessary for the procedure with the other, he thinks that although Lord Orochimaru may have taken the original girl, he'll be the one that ultimately wins once he gets her back.
#30 - Just
It isn't fair that she was born weak into a clan that embraces strength as their only god, or that he was born into a group that saw him only as a weapon made to ruin and betray before he even spoke in complete sentences; and since neither life nor the world are just, the few stolen hours they spend in each other's arms are their own small way of telling everything else to go hang.
#31 - Smirk
Kabuto would never admit it, but it's a little frightening that Hinata never smiles when he's the one on the bottom, helpless and chained during their play: her cold stares and silences are more unnerving than the most evil of smirks could ever be.
#32 - Sorrow
As horrible as he is, Hinata can't look at him and not feel deep pity for the greatness that was lost when past circumstances dictated that this was what he would become.
#33 - Stupidity
Her first kiss happens because she is not careful enough: she should have never gone with him in the first place; she should have tried to run away when the landscape folded in on itself and her head went hot, and most of all, she should have realized that all the pieces of marzipan in the box would be poisoned and that she had never seen him swallow.
#34 - Serenade
Kabuto's method for distracting her from her grief is to put an arm around her shoulders and read to her from his book of medical disorders: by the time he gets to diseases of the testicles, she is nearly asleep.
#35 - Sarcasm
Her personality isn't really framed for sarcastic jabs the way his is, but Kabuto finds that Hinata has a way of making insightful and damnably correct observations that can sting almost as badly.
#36 - Sordid
If Neji had any idea of of what they really got up to all those times they disappear from the house he'd go ballistic; as it is, the faint welts and rope burn marks on their bodies only make him scowl in suspicion as Kabuto smiles sweetly back.
#37 - Soliloquy
She doesn't even dare to whisper reassurance to herself, because it's an undeniable fact that no corner in Otogakure is safe from Kabuto's prying and she won't give him the satisfaction.
#38 - Sojourn
Hinata knows that it's only a matter of time before he comes for her again: therefore, she tries not to get too settled in back at home.
#39 - Share
Neither Neji nor Kabuto play well with others, especially when she is concerned.
#40 - Solitary
Her ANBU guards fail to wake her at the appointed time because they are lying dead in little heaps around her tent, and when the remaining one walks calmly out of the shadows and places a hand on her shoulder, she doesn't even bother to look.
#41 - Nowhere
Otogakure moves so often that Hinata sometimes thinks she spends more time sightless and stumbling at the end of Kabuto's arm than she does steady on her own two feet, but that's really the point, isn't it?
#42 - Neutral
Hanabi wavers: sometimes she hates him for turning all their lives upside down and taking her sister away from them, soul and body both; other days she remembers how he saved Hinata's life over and over again and without him her sister would not be standing here at all, so even if this Hinata has been nibbled away at the edges, perhaps this is best...
#43 - Nuance
Kabuto catalogs each of the death threats he's received, ordering them neatly by name, date and proposed method and tacks the paper up by the door of his quarters at the Hyuuga compound: it will stay there for years and only when the children begin to ask too many awkward questions does he take the frail and yellowing list down.
#44 - Near
Hinata has two options: let him stay away and wonder constantly about where he is and what he might be plotting (because with him there is no such thing as out of sight, out of mind) or hold him close and watch his every movement with a hawk's eyes: she chooses the latter.
#45 - Natural
He knows perfectly well that kunoichi (even high-bred, noble ones) are trained for this sort of thing, but when she looks up at him from between his legs with wide and slightly fearful eyes and asks if she's doing all right, he smiles reassuringly (lest he betray that he's just as inexperienced as she supposedly is: it was a real struggle not to come the second she put her mouth on him, after all the kissing and groping from before) and tells her that yes, for her "first" time she's doing wonderfully well.
#46 - Horizon
Pale light is glinting through the trees when the Sound-nin find the last of the Hyuuga slumped against the trunk of a spreading oak about a half mile away from Otogakure, a filthy crimson bandage tied over the left side of her face; though her body is bent and thin and her cheeks have gone hollow from despair, her good eye meets the Otokage's own with a look that is neither frightened nor pleading nor angry, but filled instead with calm serenity--ah, I've been expecting you--so he shoos the guards away, takes Hinata by the hand and walks her back to base, already speculating on the methods he can use to fix her ruined eye.
#47 - Valiant
Hinata's ashamed to admit it, but it wasn't the sorrow of leaving Hanabi and Neji behind that kept her going in her darkest times: it was the thrilling idea of having Kabuto as a obstacle to surpass instead.
#48 - Virtuous
While awake, she does not think of him: the things she does at night with him in her dreams are another matter entirely.
#49 - Victory
Hinata laughs, finally, and Kabuto fills with the bone-deep satisfaction that comes with winning a long-coveted prize.
#50 - Defeat
How she knew: he let her remove his glasses.
Pairing: Hinata Hyuuga/Kabuto Yakushi
Theme set: Beta
Rating: R, for violence and some moderately explicit sexual content.
#01 - Walking
Kabuto keeps his promise and takes her on a walking tour of the Five Countries, even though there's very little left to see since the Kyuubi (she cannot think of it, or Naruto without a bright, piercing pain) raged across the world and left behind ash and sorrow in equal measure.
#02 - Waltz
It's not even really circling, but a slow, cautious sidestep that Hinata adopts for her dealings with him: unfortunately, Kabuto is far more nimble than she is, but that doesn't mean she can't try.
#03 - Wishes
It draws him up short when Hinata asks what will you do after Orochimaru and though he feigns a cheerful (and slightly sinister) certainty that his lord will endure forever, he has to admit that the idea hope that the Sannin will not end up ruling all his days sometimes leaves him awake at night.
#04 - Wonder
Why is the word that is constantly on her mind but never allowed to pass her lips, because she's sure that any answer she receives from him will be as false as his kindness almost certainly is.
#05 - Worry
Each "accidental" caress shows her that it's not a matter of if, but when, and each morning Hinata wakes asking herself if this will be the day she ends up in his bed.
#06 - Whimsy
Everyone in Konoha soon knows about the huge (and very expensive) bouquet of flowers left at the Hyuuga compound for Hinata's birthday, but the tiny silver foxhead charm she finds that night on her pillow is something she keeps to herself.
07 - Waste/Wasteland
Years later, Kabuto takes her back to the place where Konoha once stood and indulgently allows her to wander; she ends up kneeling in the ruins of the Hyuuga estate, turning a fragment of her mother's memorial picture over and over in her hands as her eyes burn with the tears she is no longer able to shed.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
He's curious if her tolerance for drugs and poisons extends to alcohol as well: after the first few glasses of whiskey leave her flushed and giddy, he's willing to abandon scientific inquiry for a much more interesting experiment.
#09 - War
Sasuke watches expressionless from the stands as they run and twist and dive at each other: Kabuto's chakra scalpel severs the tendons in Hinata's left leg just as her Gentle Fist bursts all the veins in his arm.
#10 - Weddings
Sakura is not the only woman in Konoha to be married to two men: Hinata claimed that distinction first.
#11 - Birthday
The 29th is two days away, but when Kabuto finds Hinata lying nearly unconscious in the woods, he decides that the best presents are the ones entirely unplanned for.
#12 - Blessing
Despite all the pain it might bring, Hinata had always looked forward to becoming a mother: now, as she sits in Otogakure, she runs her fingers along the jars of dried herbs and weighs the idea of permanent sterilization against the potential horror of giving birth to a future vessel of Orochimaru's, no matter how often Kabuto swears that the snake lord will have no more flesh and blood from him.
#13 - Bias
"So, you're into little girls now?" Misumi asks with a scowl when he catches Kabuto slipping out of her room at the hospital; he simply smirks in reply and pulls the door shut as quietly as he can so her rest won't be disturbed, knowing that no matter how much Misumi complains to Lord Orochimaru about his indifference to authority, his leader will simply smile and write the matter off as another of cute Kabuto's unpredictable (and amusing) whims.
#14 - Burning
The pain she feels when she collapses at the Chuunin exams is nothing compared to the pain of the healing: his chakra purges and twists the sinews of her heart until it feels like they're on fire.
#15 - Breathing
Once Councilman Asayama falls to the ground, the ANBU takes a step forward, then stops, tilting his head to the side as if he can tell something else is in the air besides birdsong and the rustle of grass: perched high in her tree, Hinata jams a fist against her mouth, breathing as lightly as she can through her nostrils and somehow she remains unnoticed, for the man walks away after another moment, the setting sun turning his blade into an arc of pure light as he plunges it into Asayama's side.
#16 - Breaking
"Oh, yes, please. Hinata-chan, more," Kabuto almost moans as he squirms in his bonds and Hinata smiles softly as she takes her mouth away from his cock.
#17 - Belief
You could get Hinata to do almost anything as long as you framed it as a challenge for her to overcome, Kabuto muses, and grins into her hair as he cups his hand around the soft, heavy weight of her right breast and squeezes.
#18 - Balloon
The festival lights catch on the bunches of balloons and turn them into vast, shimmering fields of brilliant color, but Hinata can neither take joy in them or her pretty new kimono, because her arm is tucked firmly through Kabuto's and Otogakure is here not to celebrate but to assassinate a man.
#19 - Balcony
Airy and pleasant it may be, but the wooden floor of the balcony creaks in a way that suggests imminent collapse, though Kabuto is too distracted by the sight of Hinata's sun-warmed thighs to pay it much mind.
#20 - Bane
Sasuke-kun has no idea that Kabuto has a vial of untraceable poison with his name on it, and if the little brat stalks in to ruin Kabuto's quiet moments with Hinata one more time, it's going into his soup.
#21 - Quiet
Dr. Haniwa arrives with his customary scowl and a bitten-out request that Kabuto keep it down: Hinata's screams are keeping the recovering patients from their rest.
#22 - Quirks
While Hinata recuperates from the birth, Neji takes Hanabi aside to voice his concerns about the possibility of mental instability being passed from father to daughter; he thinks their conversation has gone unheard by anyone else until the father asks--smiling--why Neji isn't worried about Hinako inheriting the Hyuuga "pompous kin-murdering unfeeling bastard genes" as well and Neji doesn't talk to him for a week.
#23 - Question
"You can't deny that any children we have would be quite lovely," Kabuto tells her, glasses glinting, "and with my own skills paired with the Byakugan, stronger than almost any other shinobi around...after all, isn't strength the only thing that the Hyuuga really care about, in the end?
#24 - Quarrel
Neji and Kabuto lie on their respective sides in the great bed and toss volleys at each other over the slim divider of her body until Hinata threatens to chain the two of them together and walk away.
#25 - Quitting
"So, it looks like the great Kabuto Yakushi isn't infallible after all. I'd say she's found a way to escape you," Haniwa says, his tone dry and snide, when Hinata fails to come out of her coma on schedule; though at his side, Kabuto scarcely pays attention to the old man and can only look down at her still body, stunned with disbelief that she'd give up so soon.
#26 - Jump
Without her chakra she's confined to the ground and she watches in quiet resentment as Kabuto and Sasuke leap through the trees while she walks sedately behind them.
#27 - Jester
As long as Lord Orochimaru thinks Hinata to be nothing more than an amusing toy of little consequence, she's relatively safe with him, and so Kabuto makes sport of the girl at every opportunity to keep the illusion intact.
#28 - Jousting
If Kabuto is quiet during sex, she is quieter: she swallows her moans and whimpers and he does the same, each striving for perfect silence as they try to break the other's control.
#29 - Jewel
After her funeral pyre burns down to embers, Kabuto retreats back to his office, wiping the soot and sweat away from his face; once inside, he bolts the door and sets the traps, heaves the stones covering his hiding place aside, and digs with careful hands through his secret stores until he reaches a heavily locked, temperature-controlled box; he opens it with the first smile he's allowed himself since her death and a touch approaching reverence because here are the crown jewels of his collection, the blood and tissue samples clandestinely taken from her against such an eventuality and as he caresses the vial containing some of her ova with one hand and sets out the equipment necessary for the procedure with the other, he thinks that although Lord Orochimaru may have taken the original girl, he'll be the one that ultimately wins once he gets her back.
#30 - Just
It isn't fair that she was born weak into a clan that embraces strength as their only god, or that he was born into a group that saw him only as a weapon made to ruin and betray before he even spoke in complete sentences; and since neither life nor the world are just, the few stolen hours they spend in each other's arms are their own small way of telling everything else to go hang.
#31 - Smirk
Kabuto would never admit it, but it's a little frightening that Hinata never smiles when he's the one on the bottom, helpless and chained during their play: her cold stares and silences are more unnerving than the most evil of smirks could ever be.
#32 - Sorrow
As horrible as he is, Hinata can't look at him and not feel deep pity for the greatness that was lost when past circumstances dictated that this was what he would become.
#33 - Stupidity
Her first kiss happens because she is not careful enough: she should have never gone with him in the first place; she should have tried to run away when the landscape folded in on itself and her head went hot, and most of all, she should have realized that all the pieces of marzipan in the box would be poisoned and that she had never seen him swallow.
#34 - Serenade
Kabuto's method for distracting her from her grief is to put an arm around her shoulders and read to her from his book of medical disorders: by the time he gets to diseases of the testicles, she is nearly asleep.
#35 - Sarcasm
Her personality isn't really framed for sarcastic jabs the way his is, but Kabuto finds that Hinata has a way of making insightful and damnably correct observations that can sting almost as badly.
#36 - Sordid
If Neji had any idea of of what they really got up to all those times they disappear from the house he'd go ballistic; as it is, the faint welts and rope burn marks on their bodies only make him scowl in suspicion as Kabuto smiles sweetly back.
#37 - Soliloquy
She doesn't even dare to whisper reassurance to herself, because it's an undeniable fact that no corner in Otogakure is safe from Kabuto's prying and she won't give him the satisfaction.
#38 - Sojourn
Hinata knows that it's only a matter of time before he comes for her again: therefore, she tries not to get too settled in back at home.
#39 - Share
Neither Neji nor Kabuto play well with others, especially when she is concerned.
#40 - Solitary
Her ANBU guards fail to wake her at the appointed time because they are lying dead in little heaps around her tent, and when the remaining one walks calmly out of the shadows and places a hand on her shoulder, she doesn't even bother to look.
#41 - Nowhere
Otogakure moves so often that Hinata sometimes thinks she spends more time sightless and stumbling at the end of Kabuto's arm than she does steady on her own two feet, but that's really the point, isn't it?
#42 - Neutral
Hanabi wavers: sometimes she hates him for turning all their lives upside down and taking her sister away from them, soul and body both; other days she remembers how he saved Hinata's life over and over again and without him her sister would not be standing here at all, so even if this Hinata has been nibbled away at the edges, perhaps this is best...
#43 - Nuance
Kabuto catalogs each of the death threats he's received, ordering them neatly by name, date and proposed method and tacks the paper up by the door of his quarters at the Hyuuga compound: it will stay there for years and only when the children begin to ask too many awkward questions does he take the frail and yellowing list down.
#44 - Near
Hinata has two options: let him stay away and wonder constantly about where he is and what he might be plotting (because with him there is no such thing as out of sight, out of mind) or hold him close and watch his every movement with a hawk's eyes: she chooses the latter.
#45 - Natural
He knows perfectly well that kunoichi (even high-bred, noble ones) are trained for this sort of thing, but when she looks up at him from between his legs with wide and slightly fearful eyes and asks if she's doing all right, he smiles reassuringly (lest he betray that he's just as inexperienced as she supposedly is: it was a real struggle not to come the second she put her mouth on him, after all the kissing and groping from before) and tells her that yes, for her "first" time she's doing wonderfully well.
#46 - Horizon
Pale light is glinting through the trees when the Sound-nin find the last of the Hyuuga slumped against the trunk of a spreading oak about a half mile away from Otogakure, a filthy crimson bandage tied over the left side of her face; though her body is bent and thin and her cheeks have gone hollow from despair, her good eye meets the Otokage's own with a look that is neither frightened nor pleading nor angry, but filled instead with calm serenity--ah, I've been expecting you--so he shoos the guards away, takes Hinata by the hand and walks her back to base, already speculating on the methods he can use to fix her ruined eye.
#47 - Valiant
Hinata's ashamed to admit it, but it wasn't the sorrow of leaving Hanabi and Neji behind that kept her going in her darkest times: it was the thrilling idea of having Kabuto as a obstacle to surpass instead.
#48 - Virtuous
While awake, she does not think of him: the things she does at night with him in her dreams are another matter entirely.
#49 - Victory
Hinata laughs, finally, and Kabuto fills with the bone-deep satisfaction that comes with winning a long-coveted prize.
#50 - Defeat
How she knew: he let her remove his glasses.