Introductions: Chapter 1

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You never treasure something until you have lost it. How very true it is.

Yesterday, I was just walking down the street off to school.

Today, I'm sitting in complete, utter darkness. The last thing I remembered was screeching. Really loud screeching from behind me.

The next thing I knew, I was here. Alone, in the darkness. No food, no water. Was this the purgatory they all talked so much about? But I felt very much alive. If so, was I doomed to die in this blackness?

But I didn't. I never starved. No big ugly monster came to drag me off to who-knows-where. How I was able to survive, I did not know. But it was certainly starting to get boring in there.

I had been trapped in that hellhole for quite some time. Forced to stare into nothing. With nobody to talk to. Nothing much to do but think, mainly what I was doing there and how I would get out.

The answer came to me one day. Or maybe it was the same day, I really didn't know. Time doesn't seem very important when you have nowhere to rush to, no schedules to keep, and no clock to check it.

It was painful. The walls around me convulsed. My head felt like someone was sitting on it, after which that person decided to bounce up and down. It was pure agony. The worst part was it didn't end there. After my head, the squeezing continued on to my chest, and my tummy, and my legs. I thought my time had come. I didn't even have the chance to say goodbye to my family, or to have a fulfilling life. I was about to lose something I never really treasured, something I was never thankful for: my life.

But then, I realised something. It was bright, very bright. Lots of voices, human voices, flew around, saying things I couldn't understand. I was handed over to various people. They all looked too big to be human, but my vision was also blurred, so maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me.

Later, as my vision cleared, I saw something that scared all hell out of me. Those people. Their eyes.

They were all white!

It was like something out of a horror movie: being surrounded by white-eyed monsters with nowhere to escape to. Well, I had no energy to run off anyway. A more logical explanation was that they were blind; maybe they all had cataracts or something. But, they couldn't all be blind, right?

It soon dawned on me that these people could see just fine. They had no problems picking things up, or walking around. Featureless eyes, is that normal here?

However, the thing that shocked me the most was that it was not those people who had gotten big, rather, I had turned small. My fingers looked so stubby and fat. And I had the desperate urge to feed on something, on anything; I was very, very hungry.

It was that moment that I realized what was going on: I had turned into a baby. A cute, harmless creature that signaled the start of a new life. It was horrifying, being a baby again, having to experience growing up again. Going through puberty again. And the worst part, nobody knows that I know, that I'm aware, and that I'm supposed to be a lot older.

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After a few days, I finally figured out my name. It was hard to recognise at first, but after a while, hearing it being directed at me over and over again, it became pretty obvious what it was. Hikaru. Hikaru Hyuuga. Which I would later learn means light, or radiance.

But wait…

Hyuuga?

Where had I heard that name before?

White-eyed people, Hyuuga surname, strange language being spoken...oh… I pieced the puzzle together and behold, I realised where I was. The wonderful world of Naruto. The fact that I had become a baby suddenly paled in comparison to my being in this universe. Is it even possible, to enter a world of fiction? What would it take to get out of here?

Eventually, I decided to just accept my fate. Perhaps it was a chance for me to make up for not living life to the fullest before. Yes, that had to be the explanation, however illogical it sounded.

In addition, I found out that while I was in that hellhole I referred to as the womb, I wasn't alone. I was sharing that space with somebody the whole time, and I never realised it! My sibling arrived just before I did, an older sister by only minutes.

Back Before, I had a sister too. However, she was the younger one, and I felt responsible for her. This time, however, my new sister was the older sibling. Would I feel the need to protect her? After all, I'm the guy, right? And technically, I was older…

You won't believe how surprised I was when I discovered my new sister's name. I considered it one of the three most surprising things that have happened to me in my new and old life, with all of them from the former, and I was still barely a week old.

Her name was Hinata Hyuuga. There was no mistaking it, she had dark blue hair, however sparse they were, and was a member of the renowned Hyuuga clan. Yep, definitely that Hinata.

So, that was it, I was officially stuck in the Naruto-verse.

The only remaining question was: how will I decide to live this life?

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Author's Notes: Well. There, I've done it. This idea's been hovering around in my head for months, eating away at my sanity. But when I discovered "Dreaming of Sunshine" by Silver Queen about a month back, and a few more SIs by other authors. I decided, what the heck, why not? So I decided to combine my interest in the Hyuuga clan and "what if you had a twin in the Naruto-verse?" and boom, I got this. So I hope you enjoy it.