Hello everyone, thanks for checking out this story; if you've seen this story before, please make sure to read this A/N. I've changed the plot of the story, and you'll read in the second chapter. Please review and let me know what you think.

This story IS set in an alternate universe, so if you don't like that, please leave now! In this universe, the opposite of what happened to the Uchiha in the manga has happened; the Uchiha, rich with power, greed and hatred, overthrow the leaf. After three years, a war is raging; Hinata and Sasuke are caught up in the middle of it.

Start the Machine

- all I can see is you -

preface; just do it

The air was cool, contrasting his hot breath against my neck.

Shivers- Sent endlessly up my spine as he drew closer, closer- Touching. My head was held low in shame, fear, hope... And all I could focus on were the raindrops, slowly drizzling off of my bangs and onto my face, and then the thought of him. His face, though behind me, I could imagine so clearly as though I looked him on directly- Everything; His lips, his hair, his eyes... He had always looked to cold to me. Heartless. I thought. Soulless.

Feeling his hand raise up my body, grazing the hollows of my back caused me to involuntarily shudder.

"Are you afraid of me?" His voice, musky, yet so velvety rang in my ears like the screams I could faintly hear, never so far away. To this I knew not to reply. The end will come anyways.

His hand lay lightly on my shoulder, certainly not for long. And as if on cue, that harsh, terrifying grip of his tightened- And within moments, my knees were in the mud.

I held my arms closely, tightly to my sides as I listened to the rain pour all around, splashing off of my skin so lightly, and so simply. I heard the light click of metal upon metal as he unsheathed his sword. This, of course, was not unexpected. His weapon, like a pair of eyes watching, I could just feel was pointing right towards me. I imagined his expression, the one he always had when he was about to kill- Serious. Then again, he always looked this way.

"I said..." He began, stepping but an inch towards me. "Are you afraid of me?"

I knew what he wanted to hear. I whimpered, nodding weakly, feeding him his petty little desires. I could practically sense the smirk that crossed his handsome face, as his index finger lightly fondled the knife that would end my life in but an instant. As my eyelids closed shut, for what I knew would be the last time, I thought of all I had seen upon this godforsaken war. The faces of my family haunted my visions. All the lives that had been lost...

What's one more to do?

"Pathetic." He said, kicking my back, sending jolts of pain through my injured body. I yelped, my hands now landing in the earth. And I began to cry, realizing that these were, in fact, my last moments on Earth. I prayed that the afterlife would bring me the fortune that my poor, frail reality could never provide. Though somehow, imagining any reality without him seemed just so... Unrealistic. This man who haunted my dreams could never possibly fade away.

How? I asked myself, clenching the dirt and grass below my hands. I'd cried so many tears of anger, frustration and sadness, and even still they poured down my cheeks, like the never ending downpour or rain surrounding me. How can I love such a monster?

I turned to him then, not caring about the pain my body felt and how weak my mind was. Not caring about my hearing, barely audible and my vision, which could hardly be called vision at all- For all I could see was him.

His long sword was pointed at me, but this I already knew. His dark eyebrows furrowed, likely due to the shock that I dared to lay my eyes upon him, in my last moments of life.

"Hyuuga." He slurred through his scoff, shoving the sharp weapon closer to my face. I didn't even flinch, only looked at it for a moment, before my eyes fell intently on his- Where crystal met onyx. Where Hyuuga met Uchiha. Where hope met murder.

"Sasuke..." I dared to utter his name, and with my final breaths I breathed; "Just do it."

Author's note: Hello all :) thanks for reading! I know this was short, but it is just the preface. I hope it's captivated at least a few readers :D. I've never really tried a dark themed fic, so don't kill me if its not all that

Review please, let me know what you think!