prompt: the importance of chapter 615
Naruto understands how incredibly lucky he is to have a lady who's loved him this strong for this long, but he doesn't really know how important it is to the history of the shinobi world. Or maybe he does, but the full extent is incomprehensible, too crazy, too sad for him to think he can handle in a sane, calm manner.
Because it is Hinata who singlehandedly cuts Naruto and Obito in two. It is Hinata who distinguishes good from evil, and it is Hinata who keeps them from merging.
It is Hinata–Hinata who stumbled and bruised and failed her name and honor and wilted and rose and fought back because a boy who was as fundamentally lonely as she was recognized in both of them a will that couldn't be broken–who changes the course of the world.
Because love makes you do that.
Love makes you sacrifice your life for your son. Love makes you protect your village from monsters. Love makes you kill for the greater good. Love makes you avenge all that you lost and all that you can lose. Love makes you heal your wounds. Love makes you stronger. Love makes you good.
Love makes you do all that you can because it's the only thing that's left and worth having when your weapons are gone and your guards are down.
Obito had known this. But he didn't have a Hinata of his own to remind him, to slap sense into him, to pick him back up, to hold his hand long enough to chase the bad thoughts away and shake the bad feelings off.
Naruto knows this now. He has a Hinata of his own to remind him, to slap sense into him, to pick him back up, to hold his hand because that's all he ever needed and all he will ever need.
He's lucky, he knows, and he has a weird feeling that had she not loved him the way she did, he would lose the heart in him and become just as Obito had: cynical and hopeless and crazy. It's overwhelming to think about, but it only serves to amaze him. Naruto only has the rest of his life to make it up to her.
The world only has now and forever to make it up to her.
Meanwhile, Hinata is content with holding his hand.
a/n: Lady Hinata deserves credit.
