Hey guys sorry for the long wait; I planned for it to be out by the end of June -ducks and hides from tomatoes- but I had already wrote a version, but my computer had a virus and therefore it had to go to the shop and the version was deleted. This story wont have those short chapters it did in the original
disclaimer: I do not own Naruto™ or any of the characters
Prologue:
Sasuke was walking down the street four years has past and things were the same. And his birthday, passed a few days ago which meant... you guessed it... another birthday party from his "girlfriend" - well former now. And after every one was over he had his mind determined on scolding her for doing yet another birthday party for him; yet he cannot bring himself to do when he sees her face.
... Do not turn your back...
Four years has past and yet he is no closer in solving what his mother gave him. And every time he would think about, he would get a mental picture of Hinata on the floor... dead; the blood just spilling out of her...
It gets worse, he sees himself standing over her with a sword covered with a wet, crimson colored liquid, dripping into the already red pool of blood on the floor. Once every week he would dream it; the picture getting clearer every time... The smell of her blood filling his nostrils like a intoxicating poison... The weird thing is he is beginning to enjoy the smell.
... Do not look away...
Sometimes it would get to the point that he couldn't sleep anymore; for like a month he went with out sleep and had dark rings under his eye lids, and his skin getting paler. His old team meats, of course, were worried, but he was able to get them off his back by a little white lie... but lying to his girlfriend, that proved to be difficult.
Instead of telling her he avoided her and he made a careless mistake of going to a training area she uses...
"Sasuke?"
The Uchiha immediately look up at his name being called and almost regretted it with when he saw who it was... Hinata and she was slowly making her way towards him.
"Sasuke... d-did I do something wrong? I-I mean you've been avoiding me for a while..." she said quietly when she was an inch-and -a-half from her boyfriend.
Sasuke wanted to break down then and there, when he saw her beautiful face filled with concern, worry, and some hints of fear...
...But why would she fear him?...
... She's his girlfriend there's nothing to fear! Right?...
... She loves you, doesn't she?...
"Hinata...-" Sasuke whispered barley enough for her to hear even at their distance
"You want to break up with me, don't you?" Hinata couldn't take it anymore the tears that have been burning behind her eyes finally let out
"Wha- What?! Why would I want to do that?! I mean I-" he stammered at her actuation, and it made him feel guiltier when he saw tears come down her eyes.
"Sasuke! You've been avoiding me... and every time we're in seeing distance you leave without a second thought!... A-Am I doing something wrong?" Hinata said as she walked towards her boyfriend, and grabbed his shirt when he was close enough
"I mean I talked to Ino and Sakura about this and they agreed that somethings going on. You even talked to your old team meats and you never said anything to me!.. I had to hear it from Sakura!... Do you really think that I am this worthless that you can't even talk to me? That... That I'm not good enough to be your girlfriend? Were you just doing this to get some sick pleasure at causing me pain?" Hinata whispered as she strengthen the grip on his shirt and lowered her head on his chest.
Sasuke didn't say anything, but his arms naturally went around the petite woman waist. He felt it. He felt warmth wash over his body but it was short lived, as the girl pulled herself out of his grip and backed up so she could see into his eyes and stay a good distance from his hands. Her eyes were cold when she said,
"I dealt with emotional pain for years and I don't wont to relive it." she said as her eyes harden
"Especially when I can stop it from getting any deeper," then she said the three words Sasuke never wanted her to say,
"Sasuke it's over!" she jumped onto a tree branch before he could say anything and started jumping away from him.
He didn't go after her...
He just let her run...
His 'light' that kept him from insanity just blew out...
He hasn't spoken to her since then – heck some of his friends didn't talk to him. One of course was Sakura, she has given up on him after he and Hinata started dating; although she jealous at first her, but she and Hinata became good friends. But after how his relationship with Hinata ended she wont even cast him a glance, and barley gives him a 'hi'.
... So you can see with your eyes wide open...
Just when he thought things couldn't get worse Neji had to show up and have a 'talk' with him. And by talk I meant Neji pulling Sasuke into a deserted area and fight him. Neji was winning of course because Sasuke didn't even fight back: he just stood there taking his punishment.
While Neji was telling him how Hinata has changed: she no longer smiles; doesn't have that cheerful glint in her eye, in fact her eyes are void of any emotion that could rival her father's glare; even her voice held no happiness and gave off no indications that she had ever experienced it or any other emotion that has a kinship with happiness.
Sasuke still has bruises on his body from that "fight" - well if you would call that a fight. But how would your body react when it is faced with something it has never dealt with before?... Not saying that he didn't train with Hinata, he did. It's just that her speed needed to be increased in order to keep up with him, and when she did hit him there wasn't a lot of chakra in it. But most importantly she didn't come at him with the intent to kill.
... That you don't need them in your life...
Perhaps the break up was a good thing. What kind of shinobi would he be if he let emotions control him? He still has to kill his brother and he isn't getting any closer by letting his love for Hinata blind him from what he must do.
In a way he has returned to his old self. Maybe he should let the darkness in, it will give him more power. The seal from Orochimaru is still there, even if Kakashi-sensei put up that seal; Sasuke broke it before and he can brake it again.
But where did the Sannin go? After his fight with Naruto he was exhausted and was limping away when Kakashi came and easily knocked him out. Although he was put under surveillance, was questioned, and disbanded from his team for a while, he didn't receive punishment. But ever since then things how been quiet and he heard some of the Jounin saying that Orochimaru had just vanish.
What else can he stay in Konoha for? Is there anything left for him that keeps him there? And at late nights he wonder's how his life would have been if he did go to the snake Sannin. Surly he would be saved from this anguish he felt at losing something precess to him. The same hole opened, the one he had when his parents and his clan died. But as the old saying goes: 'It is better to have loved and lost, then to never have loved at all.' had him contemplating about was the brake-up really wroth it, to relive those feeling?
Maybe this was a good decision after all... He stood up with a renewal determination in finding out what his mother meant:
"Beware of the one who hides... for he lies in darkness..."
...And after he does he'll be able to see the pros and cons in each and make a decision in whether he will stay or go... Why stay in a place that wonts nothing to do with you?
O o O in a lair
"Sir! We have confirmed that subject, Uchiha Sasuke, has broken up with one Hyuuga Hinata."
"Good." came it raspy, sick reply "Soon we will a lethal weapon on our side... and it all begins with the death of Hyuuga Hinata."
"Sir, shall I send Htaed to take care of-"
"No, as it happened in his dreams it will happen in reality! Let his hate do the job."
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oh Htaed is just Death spelled backwards – don't ask me why, i was kinda stuck with picking out a name for the assassin.
Any ideas or if you wont to do a collaboration on this piece just ask.