A/N: Hello again! I'm very sorry for the late update. I was planning to update once Nicha isn't busy so that she could edit it but it wouldn't be until 26th and I didn't want u all to wait that long T.T Sooo... this was not beta-ed, I reread this over and over and edited myself... Soo it's not as good as the prologue, I know. I'm sorry :[ But let me know if u want to see an edited version of this, i'll replace this chapter once Nicha edited it. That is if u all would like to. :] As some of my friends and other people say, I am a bit good at writing people's emotions BUT it only gets better when edited by Nicha... Though, I still hope u enjoy reading! ^^Anyone is welcome to leave a review, ideas and advices! :D

Disclaimer: I do NOT own this anime/manga and its characters except for this storyline that suddenly popped out in my head.

Full Summary: Sasuke Uchiha is a man who was well-known in the criminal world and yet unknown in the outside, normal world. None of his victims could ever escape from him. Not, until one time... What would happen when his and this very shy and forgiving normal girl, Hinata Hyuuga's world collide with each other? Will she also just become one of his victims? Or would it be... the opposite this time?

Rated T for now. May change later.


Chapter 1:

Frantic Patient

Lying on a soft, comfortable sofa, the lavender gray-eyed girl slowly opened her eyelids. It was blurry and the first thing that came to her view was the wooden ceiling above her head. Her long dark blue hair splayed all over the white cover of the sofa, ends hanging loosely on the edge of it.

Once she fully opened her large beautiful eyes, a familiar face suddenly blocked her view of ceiling.

"Hanabi?" Hinata Hyuuga, the supposed-to-be heiress of the Hyuuga clan, mumbled hesitantly before lazily lifting her upper body up so that she could sit.

"Hinata!" without sparing her some time to think, the younger Hyuuga threw her arms around Hinata's neck. Automatically, she returned the hug but confused as to why her sister was acting like she had never seen her for so many years. What happened..?

"H-hanabi... What happened?" Hinata voiced out her confusion.

"You suddenly fainted! And there weren't even guys here, so I worried why you fainted," Hanabi hadn't let go of her elder sister.

Hinata blushed, her pale cheeks were now tinted with adorable red color. So, she was really known as a shy girl who would faint so easily in the presence of guys. But what could she do? She was naturally that uncomfortable around men. Well, in the exception of her teammates, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame. Those two guys were her best friends. Oh also, her cousin Neji Hyuuga, although she still felt anxious around him sometimes...

Hanabi finally let go of her and grinned widely as she looked into her eyes. Her elder sister was really as beautiful as a porcelain doll, admirable and kind. She was probably the nicest person Hanabi had yet to meet. And she was kind of regretting it now how she acted cold towards her before. Their father, Hiashi Hyuuga had really made her think that Hinata was a weak girl. An heiress who didn't deserve her status. A daughter of Hyuuga Main house member who held no rights to be considered as one.

Hanabi immediately frowned at the thought. She knew that their father wasn't a bad guy. But she was wrong when she only thought that he only said such cruel things in order to encourage Hinata to strive for the best and be a strong kunoichi one day. Apparently, no. And Hinata knew it. She believed that their father hated her, that her father didn't care about her. Not at all. Even if she could die in a mission, Hiashi Hyuuga wouldn't give a damn about it at all.

"Hanabi?" Hinata questioned her as she noticed the sad glint in her pale-lavender eyes.

She was brought back to her senses when she heard Hinata's soft voice. It soothed her greatly. She wished she was like her sister, beautiful and gentle. Hanabi secretly wished. Of course, there was no way she could say that out loud. She knew that their father believed that she had stronger Byakugan than Hinata and that he had a high expectation of her.

Deep inside... Hanabi felt the pressure. And she suddenly felt bad for her elder sister. Hinata had gone through these hardships too, the grueling trainings, the practices of being well-mannered so to be a successful heiress. All her efforts were gone to trash the moment Hiashi confirmed that she wasn't worth it. At first, she didn't acknowledge Hinata's presence but slowly, she learned that she wanted to know more about her timid existence. She felt anger towards their father. Towards Hiashi for keeping her from doing so at the very first place.

"Hinata... I'm sorry." Hanabi looked down, some locks of her chocolate brown hair fell like a curtain covering her face. Hinata blinked a few times. She didn't understand. Why was Hanabi apologizing?

"Hanabi? W-what's wrong so s-suddenly?" Hinata gracefully placed both her hands on the younger Hyuuga's shoulder as both of them now sat beside each other on the sofa. Hanabi didn't look up. She suddenly felt ashamed. Ashamed of herself that despite of how she treated her elder sister before, here Hinata was, comforting her instead of disliking her. Then suddenly, a thought entered Hinata's mind. Maybe...

"Hanabi," Hinata's tone of voice became serious. It was then that Hanabi lifted her head up so that she could see Hinata's expression. Lavender-gray eyes met pale-lavender eyes. She had expected Hinata to be having a serious expression, a worried one or a sad one. But she was wearing the look that the last thing she thought she would be wearing. A genuine smile.

Tears started to form in her eyes, befogging her vision. All words escaped her, she couldn't say anything. No. She hasn't had the need to do so. And before she realized it, Hinata had already pulled her into a soft embrace. Patting her back softly and as if singing a lullaby in her ears, Hinata whispered to her the thing she had always wanted to hear so that she could feel reassured.

"I think, I know now what you're thinking of and if really so... little sister, I already forgave you for that."

Hinata could be naïve most of the time but she wasn't a fool to not notice her younger sister's uneasiness. She knew she needed to make her feel reassured. Hinata knew Hanabi needed her comfort. And she was more than willing to do so. Even if it would be only for that one time.

Hanabi felt her eyes widened for a second before closing them tightly. Not 'You never did bad things to me' to make Hanabi feel even worse knowing fully what she had done wrong before, neither 'don't worry about it, past is past' to just try reassuring her but 'I already forgave you'. There weren't lies hidden within those words. The words that an average person wouldn't be able to say so easily to someone who did bad things to you as if nothing had ever happened, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. To forgive so easily... It was just like Hinata. Hinata forgave her. And those words that came out from her own mouth was one of the most beautiful thing she had ever received.

That was all that it took for Hanabi to cry out loud. Feeling relieved, like a thorn had been taken out from her suffocated heart, she cried on her sister. Seconds, minutes, hours had passed. Hinata never let her go, allowing Hanabi to let out all the suppressed feelings for the first time in her fourteen years of life.

~ X ~ X ~ X ~

The sun was gleaming as usual, bright and blinding while Hinata recalled yesterday's happening. Hanabi apologized to her and then cried freely on her. It was the day that Hinata felt one thing accomplished in her life. She finally felt that she was an elder sister to Hanabi. Smile spread across her gentle features and her lavender-gray eyes were shining, full of life. She'd do her best today too.

On her way to the Konoha Hospital for her work shift, she co-incidentally met Kiba and of course, with his dog Akamaru. Her smile grew wider that it was almost ear to ear. Kiba was as usual, lively and sweet while Akamaru rushed to jump around her and bark loudly.

"Oi Hinata! On your way to your job?" Kiba waved his hands to her as he closed their distance.

"Yes," Hinata replied crouching down to rub Akamaru's head.

"Good luck then! What time does your shift ends again?"

"Oh, it is... around nine o'clock in the night."

"I see, be careful on your way back home. I heard there were murder cases happening lately these days," Kiba warned as he bent his body forward placing his left hand over his knee and patted her shoulder with his right hand, his dog emitting a low growl agreeing with his master.

"M-murder..?" Hinata was clueless. She hadn't heard anything about it. No one had told her! Oh my... murder. That means... that means, dead bodies could be anywhere.

"Yeah, I can come pick you up and walk you home," he offered gentlemanly. But Hinata being Hinata thought it would be rude of her and weaker if she couldn't even walk to her own house alone. So she politely refused.

"T-thank you, Kiba-kun, but I'll be fine, please don't worry." Hinata flashed a nervous smile.

"You sure?"

"Yes."

"Alright then, if something happens, just scream okay? Remember to scream loudly, or else no one would hear you."

Hinata blushed. She knew that her voice was small, meek as a mouse and it was pretty embarrassing when being told like that. But nonetheless, she giggled a little before nodding. And Kiba was off together with his dog.

When Hinata arrived at the hospital, Sakura immediately saw her and greeted her. The pink-haired kunoichi was a good medic nin, and she was physically strong too. Hinata sometimes envied her strength and confidence. But she found it more admirable and it served as an inspiration to her.

"Hi Hinata, how are you today?" Sakura walked to her holding small and slender tube bottles-which in Hinata's knowledge were probably used for some experiments- in her hands and arms that formed like a basket just in front of her stomach.

"I'm fine Sakura-san, thank you." Hinata smiled at her and Sakura couldn't help but feel in awe.

"Alright, let's do our best today too." Sakura nodded and smiled back at her then stomped off towards the room which labeled as 'Surgery Room' near the counter.

'I feel like everyone's in a good mood today,' Hinata thought inwardly.

~ X ~ X ~ X ~

Holding his sword in his right hand while leaning on the wall outside the basement where he stayed at, Sasuke Uchiha lightly traced the smooth surface of its blade with his left hand's long and slender fingers. Tonight, he would go out there in the human world and haunt some little mouse. And no, not that he wasn't in the human world. He just refused to consider his place as one. And he also refused to consider himself as one of those foolish human beings living in that disgusting place.

He was all alone in his life ever since his whole clan was assassinated. He figured out that his elder brother did it. His own blood killed and took every ounce of life that belonged to his family and to the members of the Uchiha clan. Was it fair? Was it reasonable? Was it understandable? Those were some of the questions he felt lingering on his head when he found out about the bloody truth.

And because of his anger, he decided to take revenge against him, the elder brother that he once fully respected, admired, and cared for. But what came worse when he finally got to kill him? He eventually discovered the truth behind all of his cruel actions. Why he killed the whole Uchiha clan and left only his younger brother-which was Sasuke- alive, why he had that emotionless face as he assassinated them, blood painted on each houses, outside, ground and walls... Everything. Everything was ordered to him by some of the Konoha elders.

Sasuke didn't want to believe it at first but it was the truth that was once neglected to him. It felt like a huge dagger just stabbed him right through his heart and cut his very soul into pieces. His ruined spirit... Every human emotions that was kept inside him slowly slipped away like grains of sand slipping between his fingers, and this left his body alone in the coldness.

His onyx eyes that was originally in no-life color became even more distant and dull, evident of pure hatred that developed within his heart. He forgot how to feel anything; pain, sorrow, happiness, love for anyone. He forgot how to smile, how to grieve, how to pity and most of all... how to love himself. In his perspective view, no one could ever understand how he was feeling, no one could ever relate to how his heart shattered into many pieces, now broken and could not be fixed anymore even with a strong bond. Nothing. A bottomless ground of hatred was where he was standing. An empty darkness was where he was living.

Ever since then, he changed his personal opinions and views of human. Human beings were weak creatures only made to feel glimpse of tidbit emotions before dying. Born and then die. As simple as that. Sasuke Uchiha wasn't a human. At least, not anymore, in his heart and mind. And he planned to believe on it until the moment he'd be forced to end his life and stop his breathing organ from respiring.

Lowering his gaze and closing his eyes in tranquility, Sasuke placed his sword back on its sheath behind his back. No one could ever destroy the barrier he built around himself, not even a certain blonde who was once his best friend. Not even a pink-haired kunoichi who had showed affections for him. He'd never feel any emotions anymore neither towards anything nor anyone. Not... anymore.

~ X ~ X ~ X ~

Hours passed like seconds and in a blink of an eye, it was already eight fifty. Hinata's shift was soon to end. She felt tired because it was unusually busy in the hospital more than ever. Some of the patients were brought there either comatose, had deep cuts embed on their skins, blood dripping down from their shaking mouths, or eyes were wide opened as though they were just shocked by an electricity.

Hinata did her best to save her patients' lives. She offered her loyalty to the villagers in her city even though her own clan discarded her. She was happy enough to see the smiles that spread on everyone's faces and it hurt her so much when she couldn't save a life. It was like one piece of her heart was being tore apart.

Glancing at the small clock that read eight fifty-seven above her last patient's table, Hinata turned her gaze at the injured man lying on the white bed, sleeping. Bandages were all around him, his forehead, his left eye and neck, until his chest and legs wherein bones were broken. Only a hospital gown covered his body from being fully bare. She frowned at the sight of him. His family could be really worried of him, what if he had sons or daughters? What would their reactions be if they were told that their father was in such dangerous state? His life was barely hanging on the line of living...

"Please... you can do it." Hinata slowly put her hands over the man's larger hand and gripped it softly as if letting him know that he had someone to hold onto. Then Hinata's shift was over. Three minutes had passed and she had to go. Another medic-nin would be taking over her shift, but why was it that she felt like not removing her hands away from him? She closed her eyes firmly as she kept telling herself that he'd be fine. She repeated it over and over like a mantra she had to memorize. Feeling relieved by it, she pulled her hand off from the man's hand.

Hinata was about to turn over to the door when he suddenly spoke. She jerked her head towards him quickly and widened her eyes.

"O-or..ange.."

Orange...? Hinata activated her byakugan and saw the flow of his chakra getting weaker and weaker in every tick of the clock. Oh no...

"Please. Fight it, please, you have to stay alive," Hinata muttered barely above a whisper.

"O..orange...hair... AH! He's...g-goin uh to..kill m-me! Helpgh!" he choked out as he yelled and started to panic, body shaking violently trying to get freed from the tubes that kept his life sustained for the meantime. Hinata trembled and quickly brought her left fist above her chest clenching on her own shirt. Orange hair?

...

...

"Someone! Please come in here!" not long after, the patient was frantically trying to be free and destroying everything near to him and so Hinata had to call for someone. She immediately ran outside the room and towards the counter asking one of the nurses to announce for their head medic-nin to come instantly at the room Hinata's patient was in.

After the announcement made, she rushed back to the room only to see the patient not in the bed anymore. She stepped inside, taking small steps towards it. Then she looked at the window. It wasn't opened... She just realized that her byakugan wasn't deactivated but still, because of the loud wild beats of her heart, she hadn't focused on her surrounding. And as if a cold air was creeping up her body, suddenly, a rough hand snaked around her neck. She widened her eyes. Who? Swiftly shifting her body to the perpetrator, she saw none other than the patient who was just lying dreadfully on the bed a while ago. The patient? Oh God... What would she do? What should she do?

Hinata raised both her hands to stop the rough hands that was slowly constricting her neck tightly like a snake constricting its prey. Placing her hands over the man's hands around her neck, she did her best to pry them open but to no avail, the patient was stronger than her. The question... how did he get like that when Hinata just saw the flow in his chakra nothing more than a source for breathing earlier and now he was moving faster and forceful?

The grip on her neck was getting tighter. Hinata had to hit him somewhere. Feeling sad about it, she did her technique of blocking flows of chakra. Lifting her right hand and forefinger along with her middle finger pointed up, she hit the patient's left then right arm several times before she felt his grip loosen. She took this opportunity and stepped back carefully distancing herself from him.

When she thought that she'd be able to go outside, he swiftly jumped on her making her fall onto the floor. He was hovering over her now, pressing his right hand on her head firmly holding her down right there, his right eye that wasn't bandaged was glowing red and saliva was spilling out from his mouth which Hinata felt herself tremble even more. Both of her hands that grabbed his right arm weakly wasn't helping. What happened to him so suddenly? That was her thought when she widened her lavender-gray eyes as she saw his left hand turning into some kind of dagger ready to dig a hole inside her body.


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