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I don't own anything so don't sue me… please.

Chapter two of 'Shinigami Hinata,' enjoy.

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"Mama, why is that girl crying?"

The older woman looked down and in the direction her daughter was pointing at. After a few seconds of gazing at the crying tyke, realization hit her and caused all of the color to be drained from her face. The girl tugged at her mother's yukata and pointed.

"She's crying, we should help her."

"Hinata, I don't think we can."

"But… she's crying… and she's all alone. Why can't we help her?"

"Because… because if we do, we might get into trouble. Now let's go."

The girl snatched her hand away from her mother's when she took a hold of it and took a step away.

"If you aren't going to help her then I will!"

"Hinata no-!"

Too late.

The girl had run off into the direction of the sobbing tyke to help her. The mother swallowed hard and gave a shiver.

"Hinata… it can't be… it can't…! There's no way you can see them as well…!"

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"Mama…?

The darkness began to swallow her, enveloping her small frame and blinding her.

"Mama?!"

He voice echoed through the hollow air, her voice bouncing back and forth.

"MAMA!"

It was a scream this time. A terrified cry ripping from her throat, and being left with no answer she began to run in the blind darkness, not knowing where she was headed, but desperate enough to go anywhere.

"mama…Mama…MAMA…!!!"

Tears ran down her face and drenched her cheeks as she ran through the void, gentle blue locks flying behind her and breath labored. The usually warm feeling that was around her mom grew, in both temperature and size. Where was she? What was she doing? Why was the feeling growing? Then out of the blue, she felt it disappear.

"…ma…ma…?"

A chill ran up her spine and crawled about under her skin. Pain rang throughout her legs and got her to slow down but it didn't stop her from running. The hollow air grew cold around her. Cold and empty. Another chill ran through her. Beads of sweat ran down her back.

'Mama's gone.'

She never figured out how that event occurred, but when she opened her eyes she lay there for a moment before pulling herself out of bed and walking quietly down to her parents' bedroom. She knew that papa wouldn't be there because he was busy, so that meant that it was only mama sleeping there.

"Mama…?"

She called out quietly before sliding the door open.

"Mama…?"

Scared, pearly white eyes scanned the room and the futon.

"Mama…"

There was no Mama.

The following morning there was a report that an ANBU officer found a body lying a bit further north from the main Konoha gates. The body was intact and she was breathing, but there was no response from her whatsoever, her brainwaves wee dead but her heart was still beating. It was as if her soul was taken away, leaving her body as an empty, but living shell.

"I regret to tell you, but this morning the body of Hyuuga ------ has been found. We cannot say for sure that she has died, but we cannot say that she is alive either. Please come to the Hospital to see and decide for yourselves."

What was her name again?

How could she forget?

The name of her own mother.

The name of the person who taught her Kidou and medicine making.

The name of the person that hugged her and made her warm milk after every nightmare she suffered.

What was her name again?

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She had the flower in a tight grasp, her eyes stared down at the picture of her mother while everyone else stepped up and set their flower down by her grave. Why did this happen? How could this happen? Before she went off to bed she gave her a kiss good night and went to sleep. The next day Papa decides that she's dead at the hospital.

'Are you sad?'

The girl's skin prickled at the sudden voice. Turning around she saw nothing out of the ordinary, but it didn't feel like everything was in place.

'Do you miss her?'

There it was again, taunting her from no direction, and from every direction at the same time.

'You could've stopped it from happening…'

"???"

'You could've stopped me from killing her…'

She felt her heart stop for a moment.

'She was a delectable one. Just terribly satisfying. It was a bit troublesome at the beginning though, I never expected her to be one of them, but because she was it only made things better… for me of course'

Her grasp on the flower tightened, causing the thorns to bite into her palm and make her bleed, but even if it were only a small trickle, it was enough to get its attention.

'Seeing how you were able to see the puppet I used the other day, you must be just as delicious.' It whispered. She gave a terrible shudder hen she felt something cold and thin slide up her cheek.

'But I won't come after you for now. I'll let you develop into a more tender soul. Within time you will fully understand what I mean, and from there on you will feel hatred eating away at your heart. Maybe by then you'll be able to go against me, but I'll win. I'll win.'

It laughed as it disappeared, leaving the girl in a state of shock and slight anger. Closing her eyes she took in a deep breath, her hand loosening around the thorned stem.

"I swear on Mama's grave I'll kill you."

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