a/n: Well here it is!! Finally the story has come out!! WOOHOO! I would like to thank BrokenAngel-chan and Roise-chan for there awesome support in this! I couldn't have done it without them! You guys... THANK YOU!! TT.TT Please enjoy and PLEASE REVIEW! I hate the ones who read the story but no reviews... even though I did I few times, lol.

Pairings: Main: NarutoxHinata, IchigoxOrihime, Minor: SasukexSakura, RenjixRukia, KisukexYoruichi, HitsugayaxHinamori Slight: ShikaxIno, NejixTenten,
Setting: In Naruto, starts the time of Arc of 'Hunt for Uchiha' It is set months after Asuma's death Kurenai is like 6½ months along now. In Bleach, starts on episode 114
Summary: NarutoBleachXover- Hinata died that day protecting him. She expected death but it wasn't what she got. Now toss in another world where she struggles to keep her life and love. Join her as she tries to find a way back to her world, alive. The universal war has begun.

The Light Before Dawn

1. Prologue: Death by Love?

By Evanescences Angel
CO-written by BrokenAngel89
Beta by Dark Throned Rose

Cover- Hinata was falling in darkness, her long hair flew as she wore a long starlight white kimono, her eyes closed in peace but there were tears rolling down her face. In her hand held a locket and the other held a picture.

-Normal pov

Inhale…

Cough…

Exhale…

She struggled for oxygen.

She was dying that was easy to tell. She felt it. Darkness trying to take over her vision and she heard her heart beat irregularly. Blood was everywhere. In her mouth the taste of copper and rust and on her friend, Sakura, hands, blood. Her blood. She glanced weakly up at her and sadly smiled when she saw her crying openly and desperately,

"Hina…ta!!…Don't… you…dare…die…!" Sakura cried out to her, Hinata couldn't hear her right because her senses rapidly fell away.

"S-Sakura-chan…" Hinata managed to barely talk but she forced herself to, "Cry-ing…? P-Plea…don't…cry…"

Akamaru was howling in his deep voice, whimpering at the fact that she was dying. She still see the faces of her team, Kiba bow his head, pressing his hands on his forehead while on his knees as endless tears pour down his face. Shino, his sunglasses lost in the battle, showing his strange bright red eyes, emotionless mask was crumbled and his tears threaten to spilt of over but he refused them to leak. Yamato stood sadly over the group though he didn't knew the girl long but he knew her enough to shed tears of sorrow.

And he… the one her eyes sought for.

"Hinata!!" His voice loud and clear to her ears, she weakly glanced over to him with a faint smile, "You…can't die!! You…didn't…need to protect me!! Why…? WHY THE HELL YOU DO…THAT?! WHY…COULDN'T YOU LET ME DIE?! WHY-!"

She cut him off by weakly putting a finger on his lips, while tears steady fell from her eyes, and put her hand on his left cheek. The light in her eyes started to fade and turner duller but she wanted more than everything to tell him. The answer she wanted to tell him for so long. The answer they went through her mind each day, the answer that held her life.

She almost didn't feel his warm hand intertwine with her cold and shaking one. She barely registered it when his intense azure eyes making contact with her dulling lavender one. She smiled or at least tried too at her secret beloved, whom she saw tears running down his face as well as Sakura. She wanted to make them stop, wipe the tears away, but her body was losing all the movements she wanted.

"N-Naruto-kun…" She whispered as a faint smile was on her face, "I-It's…okay… You a-are…safe… P-promise me t-that you'll be h-happy… M-may I…tell you s-something…?"

"Anything!" He cried to her tightening his hold on her hand, she couldn't feel it anymore but she didn't say anything,

"I-I-I…" She coughed blood from her mouth, she heard there, oh so, distance yells of concerns, her vision couldn't last. Naruto, Sakura, and everyone being swallow up in black spots her vision formed, "…a-always…l-loved…y-you…N-Naruto-kun-…"

Her voiced stop, she couldn't hear it anymore, very touch, sight, and smell disappeared.

She felt her body take its last breath, the hardest breath of all the breath before.

Everything around her was black. Darkness scatter everywhere, nothing could harm her anymore. Hinata accepted her fate for once, like many times Neji told her too, there was no use fighting this one. Death is destined to everyone after all.

And finally, Death took her over…

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Flow into the light

Be calm and serene (1)

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If this was death… it was nice…

'Is this death…?' She thought her body was falling for her eyes were now open to see that it was, 'I guess there no angels or heaven like they always say when death comes… But what is this…?'

Her glowing, moon pale eyes widened as a light, a small bright and radiant light was coming to her fast. And before she could even respond she was already landing on her feet. But unable to catch herself, Hinata fell to her hands, wincing a little but was surprised to see her previous wounds that caused her death were gone. On her knees she slowly sat up looking around her eyes wide with a little fear and shock. There she was on a large pillar, like a old cathedral the design was a white with brilliant light and neural colors, azure, pink, golden, red, black, and silver. But a sudden a burst of light appeared in her vision forcing her to shut her eyes.

When the light finally faded, she slowly opened her eyes before snapping them open with a gasp looking down. The cathedral picture was of her in a black like robes, her hair reached her waist in this picture, in her hand held a sword with chains around it, and her eyes closed peacefully. The picture was that of a praying position on her knees, the sword in her right hand, and other pictures around it was roses, cherry blossoms, and a sun in the top right hand corner and a moon in the left bottom corner. But in the middle of the masterpiece was some sort of ancient golden key that was also wrapped in chains like her sword. She looked around gasped, this pillar she stood on was surround by shatter-like glass that floated in mid-air! Each as far as her eyes could tell in the black abyss, the only light coming from above lighting the pillar beautifully.

The beauty and design was amazing, Hinata couldn't deny it but why was this happening-!

"This is happening because it is time."

Hinata snapped her head in the direction of the voice and found only the figure of beautiful women in long, dark robes hiding her appearance in the shadow and a dazzling wolf.

From what she could already see the women had long starlight silver hair and her straight bangs covered her right eye, her skin was a ghostly yet beautiful pale cream, and her eyes however as just like Hinata's, a moonlit white lavender but it held more maturity and cold than hers. Even if she could not see her fully, Hinata thought she was one of the most beautiful woman she seen in her life.

The wolf made Akamaru seem very small to it, as it stood tall beside the woman to her waist. It had gleaming yet wistful eyes that as the color of azure like Naruto. Her heart clenched painfully at the thought of him. It's eyes, however, made her feel as though it could pierce through anyone's mask and mind as it superior and maleficent aura makes lower animals even humans being before it bow. But beside its eyes, the color fur was a beautiful shade of midnight blue black, slick and thick with health, the wolf looked radiant as black hair on it's head running down it's back. It had many tails, four to exact, she almost thought it was a demon; all of them lit a mystical blue flame at the tip.

Hinata, just looking at them, was feeling slightly plain and unworthy of there presents for she wore her usual clothing and hairstyle. Her hair now longer than when she was a child reached the middle of her back straightly as her bangs farmed her face, her skin a pale color not as beautiful as the woman, and her eyes glowing, light pale lavender were warm and innocent.

She shuffled her feet in confusion in respond to there statement, "A-ano…but who are y-you? Aren't I-I'm suppose to be d-dead?"

"Yes you are dead. And our name is --." The woman stated but Hinata ears seemed death to the last part,

"W-what?"

The woman was about to respond but she caught herself, laughing, "Oh, I forgot, Hinata-chan… you already know our name but it seems it not that time."

Hinata eyes widened, "But h-how do you know t-that I know? A-and my n-name too?"

The wolf seemed to glare at the woman as she sweatdropped, weakly laughing. The wolf began to approach Hinata, as she stiffen wondering if she should be in defense, that wolf eyes seem to smile at her, "There is no need to fear of me attacking you, child."

Everything in her world turned upside down as Hinata yelped in surprise falling down painfully on her behind, she stared wide-eyed at the wolf. For it did not talk but the voice appeared in her mind. The female wolf, she heard from the feminine voice, barked a little in laugher, "Y-you talk!"

She nodded still very amused, "Yes because my mind, the woman's and yours, Hinata, are all connected. We are…how you say…your avatars…or your guardians more likely. You may call us any time you fear you are in trouble but you must learn our name first before that can happen. But we will be with you always."

"B-but what's h-happening!?" Hinata said slightly impatient, trying to get back to her feet fast embarrassed.

The wolf eyes grew back serious, "Yes about that. I cannot tell you everything because there our parts we don't understand but we can tell you that there is a way you can turn back to life."

"W-What-?" Hinata was confused, "Both h-how? I'm dead, and the d-dead cannot return to the living. R-Right?"

The woman scoffed at her with a teasing grin, "Hinata-chan, Hinata-chan. You shouldn't always believe what you're told. You can return to the living because you're you.

"S-so I can return to K-Konoha!" Hinata said practically beaming, she could return back to her friends and to Naruto,

"Yes but that's the problem as well." The wolf spoke again, her expression hard.

"Returning back to life you may endanger all your friends lives as well as new ones. Listen, I can't send you to your world again but I can send to another. There you can find a way to go home alive. I can't change the fact that you'll be dead in the other world I send you too but you will be alive in your world. That's all I can promise. You can choose now whether to live, sort of, and make the harsh journey to your world that could kill you again and endanger your friends or you can choose death now."

Hinata was stricken at the information, her happiness died as soon as it came. "E-endanger my friends lives f-for my own life or die! I-I-I can't do either because I-I want to b-be alive w-with my friends n-no matter how s-selfish it may be but I-I don't want m-my friends to die e-either!"

The wolf nodded, "I understand, but I forgot to say there may be a chance that you may live through the journey and your friends will live. This is your only chance you must hurry!"

Thinking, Hinata bit her lip in confusion. "T-There isn't any other w-way?"

"I'm afraid not, Hinata-chan." The woman shrugged, uncaring. "We don't know if death is actually a choice for you."

"W-Wha-?"

"Be silent --." The wolf glared at her as she giggled mischievously, "You must understand Hinata, we do not know what will happen if you choose death. It's a possible chance you might…become something of a monster."

"A m-monster!? But-but…I…"

"Listen! And you better listen well Hyuuga Hinata!" The woman said annoyed at her hesitation, "You can either live or live and be a monster. Simple as that. If you want to chose to find a way back to your world and live…. THEN DO IT!" She said as the Hinata tried to interrupt, "Or you want to die, but you will live and become a monster that attacks innocent people, taking there souls and thus destroying two worlds in the process!"

Hinata eyes widened, "What!"

"Silent --!! The wolf roared as the woman smirked backing away, "Don't you dare tell her that! Hinata do not feel as if you are being forced in a corner, you can still fight fate! You're fighting fate by being here at this very moment! Do not lose what little chance you have on being alive!"

Even as the wolf said this, the Hyuuga heiress felt that she was being blackmail, forced into a corner, and no real choice in anything. She bit her lip, as her answer formed at her lips, unwillingly.

"I-I choose to…live…"

The woman grinned widely as she pulled her hand out from her cloak than snapped her fingers. The ground, the pillar, that they stood on began to shake like it was an earthquake. Hinata almost fell again but she caught herself. "W-what!"

The pillar's picture began to shatter in to millions of piece as the woman vanished into darkness; the wolf began to fade into darkness well. She grimed sadly at the panicked girl, "Hinata, listen to me we may not meet again until you find new friends but please remember we're here! In your heart, body, soul, and sword! Believe in our say, and we'll always protect you!"

"B-but your names!" Hinata cried as darkness wrapped around her feet pulling her into its dark abyss. She was struggling but it wouldn't let her go, she tried reaching out the wolf as it began to disappear as well,

"You know our name! Now find it!!" She cried before she fully disappeared into darkness. Hinata gasped in fear as darkness wrapped its tentacles around her body pulling her off her feet practically drowning her. Her eyes were in pain and sorrow as tears of fear prickled in her eyes threatening to run down her face.

She wasn't going to live!

She knew it!

Naruto-kun!

Her eyes snap open at the name, the one that had always gave her courage, the one she always believed in, in a last desperation she cried out his name,

"NARUTO-KUN!!"

Before she could stop it, light invaded everything again as the darkness retreated hissing in pain of some sort, she was free but falling again. Her eyes closed again at the blindly light as she fell. This time it wasn't in darkness but in a sky blue color and white thick clouds as the sun shined brightly through them. She opened her eyes a little but then snap them open, gasping.

Hinata was falling to the ground of some place, at her height, which was high, she saw everything. She was falling into a town that looked sort of like Konoha, people were in stores and shop, in a building like a school, and one thing at caught her eyes was a park. She gasped as she grew nearer and nearer to the ground. She saw people fighting, a teenaged boy in a black robes, his hair bright orange, holding a black sword in his hand, he was losing badly against two other opponents. They both had broken mask on the face and had a white like robes on, one clam and stoic, while other one large and dark skinned fought in his bare fist since one of his arms was cut off.

Just as about the time the boy was going to get killed two other people came and defend the boy in time. She gasped at the amount of damage both party were causing it, as she grew closer to the ground, the big one suddenly blasted out a large amount of charka energy in a red blast. Hinata yelped as the winds from the blast blew her off course and she was falling into the trees, "AAAHHH!!" She screamed covering her face, as the dust choked her.

Barely able to see without her Byakugan activate, she manage at the last minute, to pour charka into her hand and as she fell into the trees grabbed hold of a branch. As she sighed in relief the branch broke causing her to crashed down on her feet barely. She winced a little in pain as her legs got quite a shock from the stunt. Getting to her feet, Hinata gasped a little under her breath when she heard the giant man laugh,

"Take that! They were blow to bits! There's no way she could have dodge my Cero at this distance!" He boasted, but then the dust cleared Hinata was surprise to see the man in old fashion green robes, there in front of them, a woman holding an injured girl, smiling.

Hinata felt a trickle of sweat run down her face, "Such power…" She whispered.

"Who are you?" The giant of a man demanded, growling. "What did you do?! How were you able to do that you my Cero?"

"It's just as you saw." The man raising his hat slightly showing his eyes a bit. "It would have been dangerous for everyone around me to simply repelled it." At this Hinata noted that the boy with orange hair and the other boy with a orange shield around his arm were also unharmed. "So I just negated it by hitting it with a similar attack."

"What did you say?" His opponent scowled.

"How about I show it to you again if you don't believe me?" The man said but calling out, "Sing, Benihime!"

Hinata eyes widened when a large similar blast of red came out of the man's sword, never had she seen strong and strange powers before. It made her feel weaker than she really was. She thought the blast would be the end for the other man in white but his ally, a smaller man with piercing green eyes blocked the attack with only a single arm. Her heart stop at the indifference on his face,

"Ulquiorra…" The huge man said grinning obliviously happy for his appearance, before he could say anymore words of thanks the man named Ulquiorra turned and with the same arm he used to deflect the blast to hit the man square in his stomach, causing her to winced when the man fell to his knees in pain.

"What are you doing!?" He yelled at him in slight pain,

"You idiot." Ulquiorra seemed to glowered down at him, "You're getting in over your head. These people are Urahara Kisuke and Shihouin Yoruichi." He turned around to look at the fallen man, "At your current level, you wouldn't be able to beat them."

He walked away a bit, Hinata sighed in somewhat relief when she saw they were leaving, she move a bit and gasped when she snapped a twig with her feet. It was quite loud and the man fallen on ground looked up at her and Hinata blood went cold, when he looked manic and got up. She also noted that everyone else but the unconscious boy on the ground and the boy with orange hair, looked at her too.

Boldly, she didn't hide but step out in the open, knowing that every cell in her body told her to flee, move, to get away. The man laughed, "I won't be made a fool of! Even if I can't kill them I can kill you!" He yelled charging at an inhuman like speed before anyone else reacted.

"Byakugan!" Her instincts charged at the attack, automatically getting into her Hyuuga Taijustu stands in a defense pose. She closed her eyes before snapping them open with her Byakugan activated. Her eyes widen when she looked at his charka system, which seem nothing like it! The hole in his chest was supposed to be the core of charka but it was gone yet his charka veins were at maximum to an inhuman portion! Taking no chance, she ducked when he strike and yelled out,

"Shugohakke Rokujūyon Shō!!" (Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!)

She stuck under him as he gasped in pure surprise, thinking there was no way she would defend herself. Her Byakugan was ablaze as each strike it again and again as the giant man doubled over. With each strike however, it felt as though she was hitting titanium, Hinata felt her hands bruising, probably bleeding slightly from the amount of damage. Though as she focused on the fight, she noticed that the others in the fight were also in shock especially the man named Ulquiorra, who seem to analyze her more than look at her.

"64 palms!!" She finally cried out pushing the man 50 feet away but he managed to stand on his footing, gasping in pain yet the smirk on his face never fated.

"You see that! A soul who can fight-!!" He seemed too unaffected by the attack very much like usual people, Hinata noted. The green-eyed man she turned her glaze to, he gave a more powerful charka present than the bigger man, no- Hinata eyes widen.

His strength surpassed the other man 100X in strength! She got ready in another stand, thinking quickly of another strategy but to her surprise he stop the bigger man from attacking again. He raised his hand, his eyes never moving from hers, Hinata felt a bit shaken at the look in them, for they had none. His eyes looked… dead.

"Yammy, we got what we need. There no need to stay and fight such insects." He stated as a gap appeared in thin air. "We're leaving."

"Trying to run away?" The woman said, obliviously provoking them.

The man stop and turned back around, "Such provocation is unlike you. It's oblivious who has the advantage…when two of you are trying to protect that worthless trash while fighting us at the same time. I've completed the mission assign to me. I'm going to report to Aizen-sama." He looked down in distain at the fallen boy in black robes. " I'm going to tell him that Shinigami he has had his eye on is trash that isn't even worth killing."

Hinata felt that was a bit uncalled for, and swallow before speaking, panting slightly from the charka she used from the attack. "T-Trash? Even the so-called w-weakest of warriors c-can prove to hold the m-most tremendous power."

Ulquiorra looked quite unfazed with her statement, "But in this case, I think not."

They walked in and disappeared within the portal and there was shivering second of silence before Hinata sighed in relief, she knew she stood no chance against them if they took one of her best attacks without much damage. She dropped her guard and looked at her slightly damaged feet and hands, which were both heavily bruised when she fell. But when look down her heart stopped as she sucked in breath when she saw a chain coming out of her chest that seem to not come off at all. 'What the-!'

She looked around her surrounding again and froze when she forgot the other three people there. A dark-skinned woman with dark reddish hair and golden cat-like eyes was wearing a black skintight suit showing off her well toned-muscled body, a baggy orange jacket shirt, and black boots. A man with blond hair under a mysteriously looking hat covering his light brown eyes, was wearing a pea-green old yenta with a darker green jacket over it, and green hakama pants and old style brown sandals, geta's. In his hands held a beautiful sword that seemed to be glowing red with power.

The boy with bright orange hair, that they saved, was looking towards the ground dully with his brown eyes was wearing a black long jacket that was open at the bottom with red cloth inside of it and black hakama pants to. She also noticed that two other people were behind them a fallen girl with orange hair as well was unconscious, wearing a gray skirt and white shirt that of a uniform. The boy, who was really tall, was wounded badly in his arm was being healed by some orange shield. As she examined them they did the same until the blond hair man seem to un-summon his sword to a- cane? She blinked at the moment, 'What world was I-!'

"Konichiwa!" The blond said in a lay back attitude, grinning, she nearly fell in surprise. She backed away a little in defense. He raised an eyebrow, "Would you mine telling us who you are and where you come from?"

"I-I can't a-answer that…" Hinata said hearing herself she scolded herself inwardly for stammering, "B-But I can tell you t-that…I-I'm just d-doing something for m-myself and m-my f-friends."

With that said, Hinata jumped backwards into a retreat disappearing from their view, the man sighed fanning his face, "Wow, what a surprise. A soul that stood it ground against an arrancer! And making slight damage to it!"

The woman nodded picking up the orange hair girl and large boy on her back and arms, "Yes, what more is that I saw the sky crack the moment she fell. I think, from the sky itself."

He chuckled before becoming serious, "That's true, whatever that girl is, she may be of use to the Soul Society if she ever becomes a Soul Reaper."

Little did he know he just said the understatement of the year…

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With a fate

One does not know

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"Do you think we're doing the right thing, --?" A voice asked heavily with guilt.

"We have no choice. I should go, her friends are probably worried."

"As you should. After all, it has begun."

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Will you be the hand that writes the book,

Or the page turned by the wind?

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a/n: CHA!! There's the first chapter! I'm not exactly proud with this, I think it could be better but yeah, this was all I had for the time being.

The co-author disagrees with that statement, however.

BrokenAngel: (1) Just something I thought would fit there. There should be something like this on every chapter (if I'm not to lazy to think of something. ;D that is)

Me: -dances likes crazy- Please review!

Rosie: -grins-