She stands on the edge of the cliff, the wind billowing her dress, it was white, innocent and pure, just like her. She gazes at the moon, the light reflecting softly on her pearly skin, the glimmer like diamonds on her cheek, and suddenly he realises that she's been crying. He move towards her silently...desperately trying to get closer to her, as he has been trying to do for years but, as always, he stopped...her beauty and innocence to pure to be marred by his touch.
He stares at her in awe, she is like a goddess. So strong and incredible, nothing on this earth could touch her heavenly radiance, she turns and looks out over the ocean, the tableau a masterpiece that no-one but you will ever see.
He shifts forward slightly, trying to get a better look, but he stands on a twig, it snaps. Startled she turns to him, her eyes widen as she recognises him. "W-why are y-you here?" she asks. He simply stares at her fragile beauty, he is afraid to answer for fear she will disappear, for surely someone as precious as here could not really exist in this world.
She looks up to the moon again and sighs, "at least someone is with me at the end, it is more than I expected" he is puzzled, the end of what he wonders? But before he can gather the courage to ask she smiles the most beautiful smile he has or will ever see and steps off the cliff.
He stands frozen for a moment, horrified. Then he rushes to the edge and looks, there she is...he sees her falling, her white dress fluttering around her, arms trailing by her sides, she looks like she's flying almost, and still she is smiling, as if this has freed her from all her earthly cares, and she is finally free to be happy.
He stands in the rain...unable to understand what happened. No one knows why she did it. He sits on the edge of her cliff and tries to understand, what happened? Would it have made a difference if he had said something to her? All those years of silent wishing, wasted now as he merely watched herstep off that cliff.
He heard later, from a friend that the day she did it was the day they appointed her sister as Head of the Clan, it was whispered that that was why she did it. But he wondered why she had been smiling like she had been if that really were true.
Every night he finds himself at that cliff, watching and waiting, for the time when no one needs him so he can finally join her.
And so he stands there, always wanting to be with her but unable to. He has too many bonds with the living left.
He longs for the day he will be free.
"Hinata..."