Hello! If this is your first time reading Dark and Weird, I hope you stick with it. If this isn't you may notice the difference in the first three chapters. I've rewritten them and polished them a little, so I hope it's a more enjoyable read for you now! Let me know what you think, as reviews fuel my will to keep writing. But more importantly, enjoy the (kinda canon ;) ) story!
Drip. Drop.
The droplet curls and drips fluidly onto the dirt in front of the girl, splashing and joining the puddles that are congregating rapidly. It's only after a few more moments that she realises that some of the liquid is not just rain falling from the sky but the drip drops of tears running down her face. Blinking her amethyst eyes hurriedly, she tries to stem the flow of pain and anguish. Gently, she rubs her hands together, to try and get some heat flowing through her cold extremities. The rain continues to gently patter off the buildings and trees around the shivering girl, sparkling to reflect the grey light that dully illuminates the area around her.
Drip. Drop.
A small sob escapes her lips and she gasps, as if it was possible to have pulled it back and contained all the hurt that it contained. How many times was she warned that if she followed this path it would only lead to here? On how many occasions was she told of the ridiculousness of trying to complete this goal? Time after time, she had assured every one of her sureness. Of how sure she was that everything would turn out alright because it was fated that way and if fate wouldn't play into her hands, that she would play hard ball? Those words that she was so sure of sound so hollow, so empty now. By now, the slow drip of tears from her pale eyes has started to turn into a steady flow.
Drip. Drop.
Images pass through her eyes. The calamitous explosion, the deafening silence that followed it. Seeing him, standing so proudly there, only to realise just how late he was. The look of shock as he saw everything he loved flattened to the ground, the strewn bodies of those who weren't lucky enough. The memory brings a tear to her own eyes as she remembers her own bubbling emotions, fear for her clan, her family, her friends. Unable to know who'd made it in the mess. It is then that the worse parts of the memory start to flow out. Seeing him fighting so valiently, beating down so many of the enemy, taking out the different Paths of Pein only to be struck down. Stabbed. Bars stretching through his body. The sudden realisation that her feet are moving as she bolts down the crater, not even thinking about her own limitations, only desperate to save him. That indefinite white noise, the urge to save him, save him from this nightmare. Standing face to face with the orange haired body of Pein, and being chilled to the core from that horrifying emptiness. There is no life behind those eyes, no humanity. Then the pain struck. Standing valiantly, being struck down with little effort. Rising with blood, scarlet and shining, dripping down her forehead, struggling to raise her shaking hands, to keep her guards up. Weightlessness. Heaviness. The ground biting into her flesh, crushing hard and unrelenting. The crawl. The agonising crawl. And the stabbing pain as the bar plunged into her. She opens her eyes, and feels the cool combination of rain cooling the burning heat from her tears and cheeks.
Drip. Drop.
Who are you? The thought flitters past her mind's eye, swirling around, and calming the chaos. Is she the hopeless romantic whose entire life revolves around one extremely enigmatic individual, one who is sought after, and romanced by women all through the city? Another sob. Is she just the heiress to the clan, the disgraced one who shamed the entire family, the one who couldn't even maintain the balance between the branch and head families? A hiccuped, half choked-back cough. The question screams at her, like a whirlwind, and she feels the flow of tears stop.
Hyuuga Hinata.
She is Hinata. She want to be a powerful kunoichi. She wants to show the village her true prowess. And she'll show him that she's worth it. With that convincing train of thought, she strides out from the spot underneath the tree and walk towards the Hyuuga compound. There are some things she needs to think about, long and hard.
