Shattered Tears

Naruto was running in the dark hallway. Only his footsteps could be heard on the ground.

He finally saw it and stopped. There she was, dripping in blood and finishing what looked to be a blood seal, made out of her own blood, on the wall.

Had he not know better, he'd think that he was seeing his mother once again as her hair looked like a long stream of blood red flowing down her back. But he knew better. For hers' was not blood red. It was water, a stream of flowing, blue water.

"Hinata-chan!" Naruto shouted after recovering from the shock.

The woman, Hinata, looked his way and smiled as she put the finishing touched to her blood seal.

"Naruto-kun," she said so weakly that it was but a whisper in the wind before falling over. Naruto quickly rushed to her side and coat her just in time. "You came. You got passed…"

"Hinata-chan, hang in there. I'll get you out of here and-" Hinata put a hand on Naruto's shoulders to get his attention and shook her head to stop him.

He looked at her as she shook her head. "No. It's impossible, I'm-"

"No! I'm not going to let that happen, so don't say it, Hinata-chan. You'll be fine, I-"

"Why? It's not like this is the first time I've died. In fact, I believe this to be my third time really."

"What?" Naruto stared at her in shock.

"So you should just leave me here and go, like always."

"Hinata-chan, don't say that! We're friends and I'm not going to just leave you here like this to die when I-" he yelled.

"I know you won't. But still. It'd be better if you did. Since I've always been alone, might as will die alone, right?"

"Don't say that! You're not lone, Hinata-chan and you're defiantly not going to die. I promise I won't let you die."

Hinata's eyes begin to tear up. "The same. It's the same. You're so much like him yet you don't even know it. Why? Why must you? … Why? Even when I try so hard to distant myself from you by acting shy and timid…" Hinata smiled sadly. "But I guess no matter what I do, you well always get me to and I well always fall in love… with you… Arigato gomennasai. But Naruto-kun, you don't always have to keep your promises. It's okay. If it hurts, if it's too hard to, it's okay. You don't have to 'keep' it. I'm happy, that I got to meet you… again one last time, like this… Naruto-kun…"

"No… No! Hinata! Hang in there! You'll be fine! I'll get you to a medic and, and. Hinata-chan…" tears fell down his face as he looked at the lifeless body in his arms, waiting. "No, it can't end like this. I still… I still haven't…"

"Do you wish to save her?" A voice that sounded oddly familiar said.

Naruto looked up. "Who's there?" he asked. "Come on out and let me see you!"

A dark figure stepped out of the shadows. He wore a long black rope that reach the ground with a hood that he let's staying on his back and a black kage hat that covered his face. On the top it had the Kanji 6 on it.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"I do not need to answer a question that you've already known all your life," he replied. "Now, do you wish to save her or not?"

"I…Can I really?"

"If that's want you truly and deeply desirers. Yes. It all depends sourly on you after all," the man replied.

"Yes," Naruto quickly answered. "What do I have to do?"

The man smiled under his hat. "First, you must remember and expect." The man stepped closer to Naruto and touched him on the forehead. There was light coming from his hand as it connected with Naruto's forehead. "And the rest well come to you for you shoal decide what to do from here on…" Then, the light got bigger until it dominated them. When it disappeared, so did the man in black clock as Naruto closed his eyes and he remembered. He AWOKENED.

Naruto opened his eyes to revealed glowing bight blue and the wind blow strongly around him.

He moved towards the seal on the wall and put his hand there for a moment as a small, red circle with writings and symbols on it appeared before screams could be heard from behind it.

Once finished, he looked behind him in the shadows of the cave walls. A dark figure lingered within, carefully observing him.

He then moved to pick Hinata up bridal style and headed back towards the others with an emotionless face and bangs covering his eyes.

Outside, the others were still trying to break the walls and get inside to help.

"Keep trying guys, we'll be able to get in soon," Kiba said as they once more readied themselves to hit the cave wall.

But they didn't have to. The cave wall begins to crumble and Naruto stepped out of the dust carrying Hinata in his arms.

They ran to him as he laid Hinata down. The others gartered around them and Tsunade came to check her push. Everyone was silent as her eyes grow wide and she closed her eyes and sadly shook her head.

Everyone's eyes widened.

Neji and Kiba turned to the emotionless Naruto and Kiba pulled him up by his collar.

"You," he growled at Naruto and Naruto stayed unmoving. The others looked on. "Why didn't you save her?"

Shino stepped up and put his hand on Kiba's shoulder to clam him. "Kiba," he said. "Clam down."

Kiba turned to him. "Clam down? Clam down! You want me to clam down when one of our team mate is dead?" he yelled. "How can I? How could I clam down? How could you?"

"Kiba, I'm sure that Naruto has an explanation of this. Maybe she was already dead when he found her," Shikamaru put in. "We should listen first before jumping to conclusions."

Kiba thought about it and put Naruto down. Naruto egested his cloths and dusted himself up before he stared at them all, his eyes cold & emotionless. Everyone was shocked.

"N-Naruto," Sakura begin. "What… Happened?"

Naruto glared at her before he turned and walked back towards the cave entrance as the wind picked up around him and slowly, his form disappeared in the wind as it died down to relieve no trace left of the blond. Leaving the others to ponder as to where he might've gone.

I'm making it complete because i haven't figured out how to continue it yet!