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Disclaimer: There is some Latin use in this chapter. As i have taken a year of Latin I tried my best with it but i did not learn a good majority of these words, so I resorted to Google Translate. Any inaccuracies with the Latin, I apologize for.
Also, this chapter gets a bit dark in a psychological/self harm-y type of way. Here is a warning for the "faint of heart"
Through her training with Tsunade, Sakura had thought she was prepared for anything. That was until last night when an ANBU team brought in an unknown girl, telling both Sakura and Tsunade of the crazy deduction that they have come up with – that this girl, this strange looking red headed girl with odd markings all over her body, may be the lost Hyuuga heiress. Sakura just could not believe what they were saying. How could the dead come back to life?
Since Hinata Hyuuga was never officially confirmed dead, Tsunade and Sakura have to treat this possibility of truth with as much care as possible, and proceeded for the next ten hours of treatment. First, after changing the girl from the strange red dress she wore into a hospital gown, a visual checkup was administered, where small scrapes and cuts and bruises were healed quickly. Then blood was taken for the necessary blood tests that need to be analyzed. Tsunade made note of the strange markings covering the mystery girl's body had no known origins or meanings. After Tsunade cast a chakra subjugation technique to place the girl in an induced coma, they proceeded to give her a chemical shower as is standard in shinobi hospitals (those darn enemy villages), and in case the markings could have other detrimental effects. The shower did seem to remove the markings, at least superficially. Then Tsunade and Sakura continued to work on the girl, searching for broken bones and other maladies that could potentially be life threatening.
Sakura thought she saw something strange on the other side of the girl's neck, and instead of just asking Tsunade to check it out (since Tsunade was on that side of the body, just further down), she decided that she should go ahead and check on her own, moving her hand around the neck in an almost choking fashion.
The possible Hyuuga's eyes shot open, and instead of a pearlescent white, Sakura and Tsunade were exposed to a glowing red. The girl sat up so quickly that the two trained kunoichi in the room could not follow the movement with their eyes.
"Come on Sakura, restrain her!"
"I am trying Tsunade-sama, but she won't budge!" Sakura said in a strained voice. The response that both of the medical nins heard was an awful scream. The scream curdled their blood, wrenched their guts, and nearly broke the glass of the machines and windows.
Sakura broke through the painful haze of the screaming when she was slapped in the face by the flailing patient and grabbed one of her upper arms. She used her super strength, one hand on the upper arm and the other on the shoulder, and with a grunt she pushed down with all her might. The girl moves her arm, breaking it in the process. Sakura lets go of the girl's broken arm, frightened and sickened at the sight of it.
"Diabolus animam frui manducans." The girl states in a voice that does not appear to be her own, much too masculine and echoed to be the voice of a young girl. In the haze of hearing the seemingly possessed girl speak for the first time in a strange language, neither medic realized that the girl started to bite at Tsunade until teeth met flesh, forcing Tsunade to let go as well. Once the girl was free from her restraints, she jumped out of the hospital bed and runs out of the room. Once out of the room, she notices that her markings are gone.
"Abiit! Nihil! Ubi fuerint?" She continued to repeat that last remark softly, looking around her body and the hospital waiting room, with an almost whine in her voice, akin to a child who lost their favorite toy. She walks down the hallway, turns her head to face another hospital corridor, and sees a nurse filling out a chart. She runs to the nurse to rip the pen out of the now scared nurse's hand and tries to redraw the markings into her skin.
"Hoc colorem! Non orportet! Necesse rubeum. Sanguine. Sanguine." She mutters as she pushes the blue inked pen harder and harder into her skin until the outer layers of skin are rubbed raw and start to crack and lightly bleed. The other nurses surrounding her try to restrain her and stop her from harming herself, but the mystery girl continued to lash out and attack anyone who tries to stop her with slapping and biting.
Neji clicked his tongue at the sight of the entourage that joined him in his quest to the hospital to find out if the girl he found (well, his ANBU team, anyway) was really the lost Hyuuga heiress. Sasuke wanted to come along since he did find her (plus he could not get the thought of those eyes shooting open out of his head no matter what he tried to do) and the girl being the Hyuuga they think she is affects him as well (with his –arranged- engagement to the present heiress, Hanabi). Neji could hardly fault Sasuke for being curious, as secretive as this matter is (the Hyuuga was not notified immediately, since Neji wanted the test results first bad boy, Neji). Naruto wanted to join the party of two since he was going to visit the hospital anyway – to bother Sakura and Tsunade. And strangely enough, Itachi joined the group as well, stating that he wanted to come along for the ride with his brother. Did Itachi not realize the severity of whatever outcome there may be? Or was this just his attempt at a poorly timed joke? Neji broke out of his reverie with the loud commotion occurring in the waiting room, grabbing the attention of all four shinobi, holding it steadfast.
The girl is aggressively speaking in unknown language and violently drawing some sort of marking throughout her body, pressing so hard that her hands and numerous parts of her body were covered in blood, and she is not stopping. What perturbed the shinobi the most is that she was able to harm herself without any intervention from the observing staff.
Neji was the first of the four to grab his bearings, and made his way towards his possible cousin, horrified at the sight of what she was doing with no one helping her. He started to step forward, but the nearest nurse stopped him, explaining that anyone that goes near her gets attacked, forcing no intervention.
"I do not care!" Neji yells, pushing past the nurse. He manages to grab the hand holding the pen, but she screams in his face and manages to hit him wherever she can reach with her other hand. She starts to move her head to bite the hand restraining her, but with a quick reflex, Neji is able to shield the union of limbs with his other arm, to which she proceeds to bite. While he is focused on the pain, the girl breaks her wrist and releases her arm from the hold, shocking everyone in the room.
Before she can react, Itachi came in and grabbed her upper arms. The girl continued to scream in his face some more, but he shakes her, forcing her head, her eyes, to face his own red ones, imposing sleep on the girl with his spinning tomoe. Itachi picks her up bridal style, navigating through the still shell shocked people and carrying her to her room after finding out from a nurse. Tsunade proceeds to heal the broken arm and wrist and manages to remove the pen markings and close the cuts.
"Hyuuga or not, because of what just happened, I have to put her under a seventy-two hour psychiatric evaluation," Tsunade stated to a reluctant Neji, who nodded his response. He started to feel conflicted on whether or not he actually wanted the mystery girl to be a Hyuuga, based on her actions. He could not believe that this young woman stemmed from the little girl that he liked and felt protective over, that braided flowers in his hair, was his only friend. Neji is not sure what would be better: that this girl is Hinata Hyuuga or that Hinata Hyuuga is in fact dead. If her being alive meant that she was this mystery girl, than what could be worse? There is obviously some kind of trauma, something that made her like this and he cannot bear to think that his cute little Hinata-sama went through such a thing.
The next morning, the mystery girl woke up to an internal sound she hears and wakes up to almost every day: the devil's sweet siren call. As she opens her eyes slowly, she does not find the familiar browns and greys, but the stark, cold, medicinal white that burn the irises. When she opens her eyes further, she finds herself in a padded room with something attached to both wrists and ankles. The slight pressure of the attachments on her sensitive appendages trigger painful memories of the darkest time of her life.
She was no longer the eighteen year old woman who was meant for greatness, the greatest honor of all time…
She gasped for air as she tried to make sense of the situation, the stress caused by the terrifying onslaught of memories.
…she was once again a three year old whom was kidnapped, taken from her mother's arms, her father's guidance, her clan's teachings.
The deafening silence of the padded room was too much on the stressed out girl.
She screamed.
She screamed and screamed until her throat was getting hoarse and raw. And even then she screamed some more.
Her screaming caught the attention of an orderly passing by (irritable for one reason or another, even he did not know for sure, just that he was extremely annoyed and any little disturbance in his fragile emotions – like incessant screaming – would teeter him off the edge), who bangs on the door to her padded room, yelling at the poor screaming girl to shut up.
The girl gets startled by the loud banging and the yelling, causing her to huddle into the corner of the room, cowering in fear. Most of her screams had turned into sobs and had considerably quieted down, but the orderly did not appreciate her efforts and continues to bang on the door and yell at her, causing some screams to return, the girl trying to push herself further into the corner and grasping her head in a protective manner.
The irritated orderly huffs and is fed up with the constant noise, creating a headache that he does not need. The orderly goes into the girls' room.
"You want to scream, huh? Oh I will give you something to scream about," he states darkly, deciding to beat her around for a bit and then tranquilize her to silence her. Who would believe her anyway, if she were to report him? She is in a psych evaluation and was tranquilized. Will be anyway, with ketamine, he thinks, smirking to himself at his cleverness, since ketamine is a hallucinogen.
Once the door closes, all anyone from the outside could hear are the frightened screams of a girl, followed by the painful screams of a man. Both sets of screams are present until the girl's is all that remains.
And a splattering of blood on the bullet proof glass panel is all that can be seen in contrast against the stark white.
Diabolus animam frui manducans.: The devil will enjoy eating your soul
Abiit! Nihil! Ubi fuerint?: Gone! No! Where did they go?
Hoc colorem! Non orportet! Necesse rubeum. Sanguine. Sanguine.: Wrong color! Not right! Need red. Blood. Blood.
Oh, and I really do NOT like Sakura. I think that is a little obvious, what with how I make her kinda sorta really useless. c:
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