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PLEASE READ: To these who read UNFORGIVABLE LOVE, I am sorry that I haven't updated for a very long time, I have a writer's block with that story for a while. Since it is the epilogue I don't want to disappoint anyone, and writing with writer's block will only have me to ruin the epilogue.

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When Hinata opened the door she was met with a far different vision than what she had expected. Instead of looking straight into that scarred face of his she was met by this.

He sat there like a rag doll, like all life was sucked out. Dark hair hiding his eyes, something that Hinata was relieved over, even though she refused to admit it. It was like, instead of her, Obito Uchiha was the more fragile of them. For a moment Hinata forgot who the man was, to her he just looked like a lost child. A poor animal, chained against its will. She watched the heavy chains around his wrists. Even though the vision made her a bit safer it still made something in her twist. Shocked she shook the thought away, asking herself how she could feel sorry for a man that had tried to kill all mankind.

She swallowed and with trembling hands she rolled her chair closer. Her heart beat anxiously by the fear of a possible movement from the man. She decided to roll her chair to the corner of the room that was nearest the door. That way she would keep the distance from the Uchiha.

Hinata glanced over to the man a last time to see that he still hadn't reacted to her. She sighed in relief to see that he sat in the same position as before and picked up her book to read. Besides helping out other patients she used her time to read books. From every kind and every genre. That was a way to forget about life whenever she wanted to.

However, this time she couldn't sink into the story nor could she feel the same happiness and excitement in every cliffhanger she came across in the book. Having Obito in the same room as her made her look more like she pretended to read. The fact was that Hinata more likely pretended… The book was like a wall between the two of them, the book had also transformed to a shield for her protecting a tiny bit of her fear.

After a while she gave up and put down the book. Her gaze wandered around in his room, her heart beating hard when she felt how someone watched her. When their eyes met she froze. He was looking straight at her.

The book fell at the floor.

Hinata swallowed, there was no chance that she in that state could bend over and pick it up. Eager to get away from the room she just rolled out. Hinata didn't care if she hadn't stayed there for an hour.

She asked herself how she could be able to through the same hell once again and again.

Hinata yawned as she groggily turned around in her bed. Somehow she couldn't really move around freely. She felt something cold around her wrists. Hinata opened her eyes to see handcuffs around her arms and chains that reached in the wall. Panic started to fill her as she wondered how and why she had been put in this situation.

She was too panicked to notice the other person that sat near her. At the dark chuckle she turned around rapidly… Hinata froze and she could have been sure that her heart had almost exploded.

Her white eyes met two sinister mismatched studied her bound body with a sick amusement the made the scars even deeper. He rose from something that looked like her wheelchair and started to go towards her bed with slow paces. As he did so something red glowed in the one eye.

"N-no, d.. d-don't c…c… come…" she tried to scream but her throat felt like dry sand paper and nothing came out from her.

The next moment she was pinned down in the bed by his strong arms as he watched her with amusement while she let out silent cries and tried to break free from his grasp.

"Stay still!" his could voice breathed at her. If it suddenly hadn't started to ache so much in her chest she wouldn't have obeyed. "It hurt, doesn't it?" he asked her as a strong hand forced her to look up as his sadistic grin widened.

For once she let out a high cry.

When Hinata opened her eyes she was almost blended by a bright light. Nurses and doctors ran desperately around in the room screaming hysterically. Something beeped very rapidly somewhere in the room.

"Stay still!" she heard a strict voice hiss in her ear. At first she became cold by the same command she had heard in the dream. But this time the voice was much gentler.

It took a moment too realize that it wasn't Obito that pinned her down, but Sakura. She wore a green surgeon mask and her eyes looked down at her with worry.

Hinata calmed down, and her breath become slowed down. The beeps also slowed down.

It took some minutes to realize that she had almost had had an attack. An attack that almost had cost her life. Something dark and sad spread through her. Even in her dreams Obito could hurt her…

"I can ask them to shorten your visiting hour." Sakura watched Hinata with concerned eyes. "It isn't good if you exaggerate yourself that much."

"It is okay." Hinata lied. Deep inside she really wished Sakura to go and beg the Konoha elders for a shorter time, but she didn't want her new friend to be put in trouble for opposing the system, so there was no other opinion than lying.

"It's not okay. Look, you had a nightmare and almost got a heart attack… If this continues your life will be cut even shorter and I…" Sakura gasped as she had gone to far with her scolding, the pale girl looked like she was about to cry. "Sorry."

There was an awkward silence between them. It took some minutes before Sakura decided to break it.

"Um, Hinata. Soon is your birthday, what do you want to do at that day?" Sakura asked carefully, knowing that it was best to change the subject as soon as possible. The nurse was also interested in planning a fun day for the broken woman. Hinata really deserved something good in her life.

"I… it doesn't matter." The young woman blushed slightly, a sign that she was a bit on a better mood.

"Really?" Sakura rolled her eyes, giving her a teasing smile "I bet that you would like to see your teammates, Ino pig's team and a particular blonde named Na-Naruto-kun. Am I right?"

From grey pale Hinata turned to crimson and eeped. She tried to hide herself under the covers.

"You can't hide it, you still love him." She heard Sakura say. Hinata knew how right she was about that. It was true, she really admired Naruto and his view of the world had saved her life. But still everything she admired with Naruto stung so badly in her. Was it really worth continuing on the same ninja path? Was it really worth never giving up?

For Hinata all those things only reminded her of her own pain, her own broken body and soul. Naruto's ninja path only reminded her of how she had to break that path for the rest of her life.

She could never fight by his side anymore. She could never give him courage and will to continue to fight. Worst of all was that soon she would be gone forever and would he even care? Not a single time had he mentioned anything about her confession, even though she knew that he had rejected her Hinata still thought that he should have said it instead of just forgotten about her.

When Sakura left her bedside to tend to the other patients Hinata felt all pain come back. Her eyes drowned in her own salty tears. Her breath hitched.

Sakura had dragged all the warmth away just by leaving her side and Hinata was reminded again by the unfair cruel reality she lived in.

She needed someone to hold her. It didn't even matter who it was, anyone would be fine, if she just could cry out her pain. If the saying was true that crying out her pain would help to heal some of the holes in her soul, but for Hinata she was just crying out her own eyes.

Her gaze followed the sky outside the window. It was grey and lifeless and anytime the snow would start to cover the brown and dead ground. Before she had always loved the snow, because it just reminded her of the beauty of the winter, the Christmas and that it was soon going to be a start of a new year. This time the snow made her chest clench… This time it probably wouldn't come a new and fresh year for her.

A/N Once again I apologize for not having updated Unforgivable love, but I hope that it will soon be finished

Also this story will be much darker than UL

More obihina in next chapter, or to say some more development between them…