AN:Sorry fellas, this chapter wasn't supposed to be like this, but luck is not on my side. Four days ago, my computer crashed, with everything in it, and two days ago my usb memory with my back up documents died as well. They took with them al my work TT_TT. I was planning to surprise you, my readers, with a triple chapter update, since this week is my birthday and I wanted to celebrate with you, but alas it wasn't mean to be. I got depressed after my lost, but in my depression, new ideas came to my mind. Happily, I had random notes of the general timeline for this story so I had something to work on again, I'm just sad that all that hard work went to waste.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it.

pd: for a better mood for the reading, I recommend to listen Grief and Sorrow or Sadness and Sorrow(piano version), both by Toshido Masuda.

Interlude: Rainy Thoughts. The Heaven's taers for your melody, Naruto.

"Hinata-chan, we need to talk."

That's what Naruto had said to her almost a week ago. After he tied some lost nots here and there, they had sit down and talk about what had happened. It was incredible, really. Even in this timeline Naruto's luck seemed to show itself uninvited. Whe was telling her about their encounter with the swordsman, whose name Naruto learnt was Nanashi no Nejibana from the sword Kawarene, she couldn't stop the memory of Sakura in the last timeline telling her and their others classmates the messed up things that happened in all her missions with Naruto.

"Do you have to go to Wave, Naruto-kun? Is this for more power?" she recalled the question she asked him.

He shook his head negatively as she knew he would. "I know that you ha noticed the absence of our connection, Hinata-chan." He took a brief sigh while changing is gaze through the window for a second, looking into a horizon that wasn't present in the range of their vision. He then returned his gaze into her eyes, somehow he had found the words he was missing in the summer's blue sky.

"Hinata-chan, with that connection we have I can have you close to my heart, quite literally, and can feel you next to me, giving me hope, being the Hinata in my darkness. (AN: This is a unintentional pun because Hinata means "Bright White Light" in Japanese. It's funny to know that Hanabi means "Bright Fireworks"). I want to go to Wave to discover we one of the most precious things that I have is gone. Hopefully, we can have it back"

That night, Naruto took her out in a date. Both new that any descent restaurant will deny them access, even if she was the hieress of one of the most prominent clans in the whole Fire Country, but it wasn´t a problem because Naruto had a plan.
Quite mysteriously, Naruto picked her and took her o some clearing in the back of the Hokage Monument. She was surprised, after taking off the blindfold that he had put playfully on her eyes, to see a beautiful clearing surrounded with flowers and a small pond on its north. In the middle of the clearing, it was a table with candles and covered plates on the top.

The fulfilled night start complete what was to her, and she was sure to any girl she knew, the most perfect romantic setting for a date. The dinner itself was nothing to scoff of either. Hinata was sure that they were better chefs around with better resources, but the fact was that Naruto had taken time to learn her favorite dishes and had made them himself, all for her and only her, and because of this, Hinata could honestly say to the years to come that none other food was as good as that simple meal.

They talked miscellaneous things and had a pleasant and relaxing time, but the surprises weren´t quite finished. After eating, Naruto stood up, taking a sealing scroll, the blond unsealed the last thing that Hinata expected: a Cello.

"I'm not an artist, a don't have many talents, but I wanted to give something special. I composed this song for you, I hope you like it." Naruto said nervously, but full of conviction and hope in his eyes... hope to see her approval and delight. Hinata never knew that he was practicing a instrument being the when? and how? the questions popping in her head, but she decided that, even if Naruto's composition was the ugliest piece of musical trash, for her it would be the most sublime and divine artful piece. And so he played the song for only her ears to listen.

And what song? It was melancholic, a kind of sadness and tenderness in the low humming of he Cello cords. There was something more, a sensation, a promise of a special gift, a present that will last through all eternity. Hinata knew what it was: love. (AN: The song is A Love Before Time by Yo Yo Ma.)

Hinata didn't notice when, but trails of tears were cascading from her eyes. Naruto, when finished his song, he was worried that somehow he had offend the most important person in his life, but his concerns were washed away when Hinata walked toward him before engulfing him in a tender hug, filled of warm and carishness. Hinata repeated over and over again him she loved him so much.

They staid like that, in each other's arms, accompanied by the silence of the night and the sound of their hearts, for a while. They would have stay together like that for all eternity but, without their noticing; clouds filled the sky and unleashed a light rain at first, before becoming a full pounding pour. Hinata, while Naruto resealed all the things that they had used during the their date, stood there, facing the heavens with her eyes closed and her arms extended. It was like she was basking in the ever falling water, to Naruto she just look like and angel.

After they had reached the Hyuuga compounds, they sat down on the south side of the porch that surrounded the main house, the one facing the garden. They stay their in comfortable silence, both being wrapped by warm blanket that covered them both. Watching the rain, even if their link was gone, they never felt so close before.

"Do you like the rain?" Naruto asked her, watching her curiously.

"It doesn't bother me." Her answer was simply, too short, so she decided to elaborate. "The rain... it has a way to bring up memories..."

Naruto didn't ask further, and for that she was grateful. If he had asked what kind of memories she was recalling at the moment, Hinata was sure that she would have told him everything, the memories that she treasured with her mother.

At some point both of them fall sleep, leaning into each other.

Hinata smile remembering those events, treasuring them close her heart. Somehow, she had fall in love even more with her cute sweet blond fox. She remember his last words before departing.

"Hina-hime, by angel, after I come back I want to talk to you and Hiashi about asking for your hand formally." Stunned by his words, Hinata squeal was muted by Naruto's crushing yet tender, kiss. Hinata was totally dazed with an stupid silly grin on her face for a couple of minutes before she noticed that her blond fox was gone.

Getting back to the present, Hinata had never expected this so soon. She of course knew that they would end married eventually, but that was supposed to happen in a few years, not that she was complaining about or anything.

Now, in front of the door of the Hokage's office, Hinata could not shake the feeling of something off that had plagued her for the last couple of days.

"Doesn't matter" She thought, "nothing will stand our way, mine and Naruto-kun's... Nothing!"

And like the old adage says: "Famous last words."

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(Somewhere in Wave Country)

Rimi was a good girl. Rimi was patient. Rimi was sure to accomplish the task that her father had set for her. And now she could feel that her hundreds of year waiting was about to reach its end.

Rimi liked her name. Her father, Hyoma-outo-san, had created her, even of was by accident, on a rainy day, hence her name. Rimi liked her name as much as she liked the rain, or was vice versa? It didn't matter, what it counted was that she liked the special name that her father gave her, and not that other name that indentified her: AICA (Artificial Intelligence Chakra Anomaly).

Rimi was special, her father said so. She had developed a soul when she was only supposed to be a recorded memory. He never understood how it happened, Rimi either. She only knew that she came to be, and that was it.

And when she finished her task, she could join her outo-san in heaven, Rimi had felt lonely over the centuries since she was unique, special. Before his passing, her outo-san tried to create another one like Rimi so she would not be lonely, but he fail. Rimi was sad, but Rimi understood, because Rimi was a good girl.

Rimi was a guardian, a treasure keeper. She would deliver he gift that her outo-san alongside the Otori people (Rimi thought that they had a funny name) had created for their descendants.

And now, Rimi felt the Uzumaki blood approaching to her place. She felt exited! Look outo-san, look form heaven that Rimi was good girl and had wait patiently, even if Rimi had felt sad and lonely because she had no other purpose, because she hadn't see the world, or the snow falling from the sky like her outo-san had described to her, the flowers, the animals, the ramen.

But Rimi was a good girl so Rimi vanished those thoughts. She is happy wife the life that her outo-san had gave her and she had to conform herself with that.

As Rimi thought these things, Rimi saw how a blond boy with the deepest azure eyes that she had seen and whiskers on his face, entered her place.

He seemed to be looking for something so Rimi, being a good girl, took the shape of her human form before appearing out of thin air in front of the now surprised boy.

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CUT!

Well, here it is. Some of you were wondering what had happened between the last chapter of the first vol and the first chapter of this one. I hope you had enjoyed it. Because I will really busy putting together again all the work that I lost alongside my computer. This is my dad-s by the way.

I'm kind of disappointed that none of you had guess from which anime came from the names of Team Two (the team that disappeared in Wave) and form which movie came the conversation that Asuma and Oogway had in Sanskrit.
By the way, Rimi's name also came from another manga that I started to read three weeks ago. I think is awesome and will probably use some ideas from it. A clue, this manga is about martial arts^^

R&R because the point of all of this effort is to know what you, dear readers, think of my work.