Hinata led the convicted man out of his cell, making sure that her chakra strings were in full control of him, just in case he tried something funny. She always felt sorry for the people in this place, with no hope, their life as good as gone. The living condition were quite dreadful, no windows, just cold stone walls and the thick bars and metal locks of the old rusted doors. It also stank, each room had a dismal toilet in the far corner, and that wasn't cleaned very often, but Hinata had grown used to it, after all she brought the food here everyday, her keen eyes quick to catch any mischief and report it, that being half of the reason why she had been recommended for this particular job, but her heart was still soft, even after all the years and it pained her to see so many lost faces, faces of people who had lost everything and had nothing to do but wait until the last thing they did have was taken from them, and that was life. It chilled her that some people could still be the monsters they were even when they had nothing, and then there were the people who accepted their fate and lived with that, their exterior hard as rock and cold as steel, one of them being Uchiha Sasuke. Once being part of the rookie nine that she had also been apart of, even though she had never really known him well, she still felt connections to him, for he was the one who had been closest to the one she admired most, Uzumaki Naruto, now the reigning Hokage, which obviously meant that he had to be a good guy. She wondered what could have drove him that far into the dark side, to have ended him up here, and then she remembered his past, a broken family and lonely life. She knew enough of what that was like, so she didn't completely blame him.
A small plop noise snapped her out of her thoughts and her byakyugan flared up, just for safety measures. The defeated man next to her had just flung something into another inmate's cell. Ah, the harmonica, that was passed on week after week, to the next person who would face death. Suddenly Hinata felt very weak, the next man to be condemned was the one and only Uchiha Sasuke, now the one and only Uchiha left in fact, since recently anyway, Hinata told herself to stand tall, if weakness was shown in a place like this, it could be the very end of her. 'So he's next...' Hinata continued to reminisce about Uchiha Sasuke, trying to remember whatever she could about their younger days. All she knew was that, he had been the lone survivor of his clan massacre, he was a cold, callous person, from what she could have noticed, he was Naruto's childhood best friend, and his rival at the same time... Naruto would be very saddened to hear the news that Sasuke was next, but a report was a report and Naruto would understand that his village came before someone he had once treasured; after all it was his job. In no time at all, Hinata had reached the exit, tightening her chakra hold on the criminal she spoke in a clear, firm, yet still rather quiet voice.
"Any last wishes?"
The man looked up for a brief moment, breaking his gaze from the floor that he had been so deeply intrigued in, and in a broken voice he whispered, "no."
With that Hinata opened the last steel door that was separating them from the outside world. The pleasantly warm air rushed in and they stepped outside, both enjoying what they had missed, and what he had longed for the entire time his fate was decided. The sun was setting and it was truly beautiful, the peachy hues that tickled the underside of some light clouds still lingering in the deepened blue, the true sapphire hue that swept gracefully over the sky, bringing with it a scattering of sparkling diamonds that twinkled so happily in the night, and so many other colours that he had forgotten even existed, and for the first in a very long time, he smiled, he would enjoy these last moments as much as he could, he would soak up every detail of the beautiful world he had forgotten so long ago and he would enjoy his very last sunset.
