The wind was harsh against my scratched body but I paid no attention to it as was my line of vision was to my west.
"They're coming."
"We don't need your eyes to tell us that Neji." The wave chakra coming from the on coming demons was too strong to be over looked.
"We can do this! We've come this far so let's not get nervous ne?"
"Naruto they have eight demons heading toward Konoha in order to obtain the one inside of you and they will destroy everything in their path to get to it. 18 years ago Konoha barely survived the Kyuubi so excuse me if I'm too optimistic here." Kiba's loud voice was bordering a growl but I could feel the fear running through him like it was everyone else.
Everyone was listening to our conversation hoping Naruto like usual would inspire them to still fight. With my eyes I could see the guilt mixing in with the fear inside him and was so strong that I was afraid he would lose.
"17 years ago people thought the Kyuubi couldn't be stopped but he was. Our Hokage saved us and gave us 18 years more to live, to grow stronger so that one day we could protect this village and its people as he did. Everyone is afraid right now but that's ok since that just means we have something to fight for. I for one will not let the memory of our fallen comrades to go to shame. I will stand here and protect this village with every breath in my body till those demons are sealed and the Akatsuki are defeated."
There was silence at my words as everyone stared at me in surprise because I was here and because I would fight with Konoha. I don't blame them since it was well known my loyalties to Konoha were hanging in there by a thread. After my cruel and almost fatal exile from my family, my break up with Naruto-kun and my replacement on team eight was announced everyone thought I would leave this city. I was planning on leaving but of all people standing before me on the path leading out of the village stood Sakura.
Sakura, who was my best friend before I found about her and Naruto. She stood in my way telling me she would not apologize for loving Naruto but she was sorry I had found out like that. She told me that she found an old seal that could seal away the Bijuu but she needed me to help since I knew the most about Fuinjutsu. I was shocked that she would dare ask me to help a village that turned their back on me. I remained in silence as I walked past her so she started yelling at my back.
"What about the kids Hinata? What are they guilty of? Why do they deserve to die because of what we have done to you? The Hinata I know is still in there would never walk away to leave innocent people to die. She would see past all that damn bullshit and save them."
She was right and here I am standing across from the people that had meant the most to me but now bring me nothing but pain.
"Hinata-chan you came back." I know with his soft voice that Naruto had cared for me even if it was just a little.
"Thank Sakura." I walked away from past my old cell block, past my old family, past the Hokage who took away my shinobi status and everyone who did not believe I would not come back. I kept walking into the forest never stopping till I came upon the path I should have finished walking three days ago. I waited till I saw them come over the last stretch and smiled. I wasn't scared so in the end I really I had nothing to lose right?
An hour later
I had sealed my second demon and I kneeled down to take a breath but I stopped to see Konoha destroyed, the bodies littered the ground like the other five nations had become. Then a scream I knew to be Sakura's pierced the air not to far from me. My body was already rushing toward her before my brain caught up. When I got there what I saw took all hope from me. Sakura crying over Naruto's dead body and Madara with seven demons standing around him.
With the help of the Bijuu they broke my seals and the two I had sealed joined in the circle. I ran toward the Madara who was in the middle but I didn't know what I would or could do when I got there. The demons turned into pillars of chakra that reached into the sky but the seal that formed a gateway made my heart stop beating for a second. I knew that seal and I knew that it would be the end of all life. I slid forward under the solid wall of chakra before it closed around the pillars. Madara was distracted with maintaining the control of the Bijuu that he did not notice me or my signature. I take out a scroll and called my summoning out to help me. There standing as tall as 6ft was a white crane that I had earned on a mission to lightning.
"Yasu I need you to fly me to the seal to stop it before it's too late."
"This is too dangerous master; the seal could rip us to shreds."
"Yasu that seal up there is a gateway to let demons into this world so everything would be killed and ripped into pieces if we don't try."
Yasu looked at me with steel grey eyes but spread his wings and took flight as I grabbed on to his legs.
He was quite as the wind and chakra pulsed against my skin but Yasu flew true as he dropped me upon the floating seals. Instead of disappearing he stayed by my side opting to go beneath my skin in my summoning tattoo. I racked my memory trying to figure out how to change the seal since I knew threw was no chakra amount in this would that could stop this from happening. I was running out of time as the seal was starting to move. I threw my self in the middle and started using hand signs to take the demons chakra to twist the seal. I had trained my eyes to see a seal so I could reach into them of sorts and create different seals that didn't exist and or I could change them which was to do so was forbidden in all the lands.
The pain was in my entire body as consequence of changing such a powerful and ancient seal but I would not falter. The second I finished the pain grew to a new height that I did not even realize I was screaming till it was too late as Madara as in front of me.
"Hinata hyuuga you are not supposed to be here. I destroyed your pathetic life in Konoha do you could free yourself and yet you came back. Disappointing indeed and because you tried to stop the seal I have to kill you. I was going to use Naruto or maybe even Sakura but you will do nicely as my sacrifice."
Madara dragged me to the small opening in the middle of the seal but I pulled away.
"Don't push me! I'll go in by myself." Madara started laughing and stood back to let me jump. I closed my eyes and prayed to Kami that what I did to the seal worked and I jumped.
The chakra ripped against me but it did not spill my blood as I stayed above the bottom where Madara could see me but not Yasu who kept me from my death. In anger he jumped into the seal thinking he could float as well but unlike me he was ripped apart instantly.
"Fly for the opening Yasu!" His wing beats were hard and fast but we had barely made it out in time as the gate way exploded and everything went dark.
I awoke to something cool being placed on my forehead and it felt so good against the rest of my aching body.
"Ka-san she's awake come look!" I was looking into bright green eyes and for a second I had hoped it was Sakura but then realization set in. The mother came in with long braided brown hair and a wide smile.
"Give her some space Saya-chan she just woke up!" The child pouted at her mother and clung to my bed side even more.
"Demo she's been sleeping for like forever and I was the one who took care of her so I get to talk to her first!" I started laughing but found my throat incredibly dry. The mother handed me a glass of water and three more later I could use my voice.
"Excuse me how long is forever exactly?" The mother gave me a sad smile like the one I gave to a patient when I had bad news.
"Three years today dear." What? I knew the price for change the seal would be large but three years of my life?
"How do you know it had been three days today? And my name is Hinata."
"Because Hinata when my daughter found you there was a beautiful large white crane in the water that not far from you. It comes back three days a year like its waiting for you."
"I think it's a shinobi that turned into a crane and he returns waiting for you because he loves you!" The mother and I started laughing at the little girls dreamy face.
"Honey that's silly you know shinobi's don't exist anymore!" I stopped laughing and stared at the laughing woman in shock.
"What?" The mother stopped laughing when she realized why I was so shocked.
"Gomen the demon war was probably right around the time you became unconscious. After the all the demons destroyed the villages most of them were dead. Then kami granted the power to samurai to rid us of the Shinobi because many feared there would be another war. So the Samurai hunted them down and sentenced them to death. Hinata this is now the time of the samurai."
"So everyone thinks shinobi are evil?" The mother looked sad as she shooed her daughter away and took a seat beside me.
'Fear does things to rational people, at the time many thought it was the Shinobi's fault but now as evil still reigns over us we know it does not matter if you are a shinobi, samurai or any other, the evil is in mans heart. Now it is too late, if the shinobi's do live they hide and will not come to our rescue. Most of the samurai are more interested in walking around to find more power then to help us."
"I did not know so much could change in three years what will I do?"
"Child you will do what you did before you were hurt."
"What good is a shinobi in the time of the samurai?"
wow its been forever since i wrote anything so im a little a out of practice.
So anything you don't understand i will probably explain it later on. Couple request and reviews would be much appreciated!
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